Find what you love and let it kill you.Charles Bukowski The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.Albert Camus In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.Robert Frost For the rest of the earth's organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death-and nothing else. But we know too much to content ourselves with surviving, reproducing, dying-and nothing else. We know we are alive and know we will die. We also know we will suffer during our lives before suffering-slowly or quickly-as we draw near to death. This is the knowledge we enjoy as the most intelligent organisms to gush from the womb of nature. And being so, we feel shortchanged if there is nothing else for us than to survive, reproduce, and die. We want there to be more to it than that, or to think there is. This is the tragedy: Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are-hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.Thomas Ligotti Get busy living or get busy dying.Stephen King You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.Henry Rollins I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.Friedrich Nietzsche The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.Elisabeth Kübler-Ross The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.Ernest Hemingway Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.Ernest Hemingway