I see no point in living if I cant be beautiful - Howl's Moving Castle
I worry that I have thought all of the brilliance I will ever think and the rest of my life will be spent wallowing in mediocrity, reminiscing of times before my mind grew into this state of creative impotence.
Every single time my heart breaks a little piece is lost, leaving me fragile, frightened that one day when i meet the one who my heart beats for i will be so corrupted, incapable of love that i will wither away; alone and unloved...
We are never so defenseless as when we are in love - Sigmund Freud
The great tragedy of life is not death but what dies inside of us while we live - Norman Cousins
They held each other and kissed, pushing each others darkness into the corner, believing in each others light, in each other's dreams - Hubert Selby Jr, Requiem for a Dream
Nature is selfish. All creatures kill to survive. Love is a mechanism to propagate the species. Beauty is a trick that fades. Friendship is an arrangement for mutual advantage. Good is not rewarded, and evil is not punished. Religion is superstition. Death is annihilation. And as for God, if he exists at all he stopped caring for humankind centuries ago. Wouldn't you? - William Nicholson, The Society of Others