"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come." ~ William Shakespeare

"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one." ~ Vladimir Nabokov

"The more I think of it, the less I understand. All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know." ~ Osamu Dazai's 'No Longer Human'

"There are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other. Animal fury and orgiastic license here whipped themselves to daemonic heights by howls and squawking ecstasies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell." ~ H.P Lovecraft's 'Call of Cthulhu'

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry." - Ernest Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms'