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“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
― Diane Ackerman

“I have heard it said that how you spend your day is how you spend your life, and my days changed then.”
― James S.A. Corey, The Vital Abyss

“While life will always be filled with sound and fury, it can be more than a tale signifying nothing.”
― Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide

“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”
― Erich Fromm

“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.”
― Huey P. Newton

“Death isn't the only way to die, though it can be argued that it is the most merciful.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“If this is what I get, this is what I get. Not a life without regrets, but none I can’t live with. None I can’t die with.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.”
― Albert Hofmann

“I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive. But I also sense the universe is magical, greater than the sum of its parts, which I don't attribute to a governing god, but simply to the surprising, ecstatic, frightening everyday reality we all know. Ultimately, I find consciousness a fascinating predicament for matter to get into.”
― Diane Ackerman, An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

“Life went on. That was the terrible thing. They were ripped out of their world, their lives, their sense of who and what they were. Their history. They were killed, or made to watch the people they loved die. And then, at some point, they were hungry. Thirsty. They had to piss. Someone told a joke, and they laughed, however darkly. They washed dishes. Changed clothes. Held funerals. It felt like it should have stopped, all of it, and it didn’t. The slow, low pulse of being alive kept making its demands, no matter what. However bad it was, however mind-breaking and strange and painful, the mundane insisted on its cut.”
― James S.A. Corey, The Mercy of Gods

“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
― Erich Fromm

“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

“I suppose I love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.”
― Andrea Gibson

“We’re little people in big times, yeah?”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.”
― Rupaul

“To believe that our beliefs are permanent truths which encompass reality is a sad arrogance. To let go of that belief is to find safety.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

“Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.”
― Bertrand Russell

“I need very little, but I need that little very much.”
― Nitya Prakash

“I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“I am a human being. Anything that happens to human beings could happen to me.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.”
― Erich Fromm

“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
― Erich Fromm

“The word “love” is most often defined as a noun, yet all the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban’s War

“The essence of true love is mutual recognition—two individuals seeing each other as they really are.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“We’re spending our whole lives together, so we need to be really gentle.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection