"Love hinders death. Love is life. Anything at all that I understand, I understand only because I love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a tiny particle of love, shall return to the universal and eternal source." -Leo Tolstoy

"Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’" - Erich Fromm

"As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence. I have formed during the last few years such a close relationship with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy." - Franz Kafka

"Here we are, we’re alone in the universe, there’s no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We’ve only got ourselves. Somehow, we’ve just got to make a go of it. We’ve only ourselves." -John Osborne

"There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author." -Marquis de Sade

"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." -Frank Herbert

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover I had not lived….I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms…" - Henry David Thoreau

"I deserted the people because their natures were in conflict with mine, and their dreams did not agree with my dreams….I left man because I found that the wheel of my soul was turning one way and grinding harshly against the wheels of other souls which were turning in the opposite direction. I left civilization because I found it to be an old and corrupt tree, strong and terrible, whose roots are locked into the obscurity of the earth and whose branches are reaching beyond the cloud; but its blossoms are of greed and evil and crime, and its fruit is of woe and misery and fear." - Kahlil Gibran

"…much it grieved my heart to think / What man has made of man…." - William Wordsworth

"[Optimism] is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell" -Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire from Candide

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." - J.D. Salinger from The Catcher In the Rye

"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse" - Miguel de Cervantes from Don Qioxote

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

"Love can crush, held too tight." - Tori Amos

"Please to be restful. It is only a few crazies who have from the crazy place outbroken." - William S. Burroughs

"The death of one person is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic." - Josef Stalin

"Love is when you look into someone's eyes and suddenly you go all the way inside, to their soul, and you both know instantly." - Angela Chase (Claire Danes) My So-Called Life

"Knowledge is power." - Francis Bacon

"To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing." - Elizabeth Bibesco

"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel." - John Churton Collins

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves." - Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Take a walk outside yourself and get to know the person behind the face. Is it someone you can really love?" - Urge Overkill

"The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n" - John Milton

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances but cannot bring into being the substance itself.: - Mary Shelley

"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms." - Henry Miller

"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man." - A Clockwork Orange

"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." - Henry David Thoreau

"The strong man is strongest when alone." - Friedrick von Schiller

"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that." - John Keats

"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance." - Eric Hoffer