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“Objektiv gesehen ist der Tod das Beste, was den Menschen passieren konnte. Er zwingt sie, sich dem Leben zu stellen, jede Sekunde davon zu genießen und sich zu verwirklichen. Er ist das einzig richtige Ende, notwendig und ein starker Antrieb.“ Er machte eine Pause. „Subjektiv gesehen ist der Tod natürlich scheiße.”
― Benedict Wells, Fast genial

“Das Gegengift zu Einsamkeit ist nicht das wahllose Zusammensein mit irgendwelchen Leuten. Das Gegengift zu Einsamkeit ist Geborgenheit.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

“Ich habe keine Angst vor der Zukunft, verstehen Sie? Ich hab nur ein kleines bisschen Angst vor der Gegenwart.”
― Benedict Wells, Spinner

“As simple as it sounds, I think understanding who you are—and who you are not—is not the most important thing of all Important Things.”
― David Arnold, Mosquitoland

“Life can be a real son of a bitch sometimes, bringing things back around long after you've said good-bye.”
― David Arnold, Mosquitoland

“Sometimes, things are more embarrassing when you're alone. I guess when no one's around to hear your stupidity, you're forced to bear the brunt of it.”
― David Arnold, Mosquitoland

“I have limited experience, but I know this: moments of connection with another human being are patently rare. But rarer still are those who can recognize such a connection when they see one.”
― David Arnold, Mosquitoland

“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“We're so young. We can't, we MUST not loose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“We're so young. We're so young. We're twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There's this sentiment I sometimes sense, creeping in our collective conscious as we lie alone after a party, or pack up our books when we give in and go out - that it is somehow too late. That others are somehow ahead. More accomplished, more specialized. More on the path to somehow saving the world, somehow creating or inventing or improving. That it's too late now to BEGIN a beginning and we must settle for continuance, for commencement.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“It's not quite love and it's not quite community; it's just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together. Who are on your team. When the check is paid and you stay at the table. When it's four A.M. and no one goes to bed. That night with the guitar. That night we can't remember. That time we did, we went , we saw, we laughed, we felt. The hats.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“something about the stillness or my state of mind reminded me of the world’s remarkable capacity to carry on in every place at once.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical. It’s hilarious. We’re graduating from college. We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“Maybe I’m ignorant and idealistic but I just feel like that can’t possibly be true. I feel like we know that. I feel like we can do something really cool to this world. And I fear—at twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five—we might forget.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“Do you wanna leave soon?
No, I want enough time to be in love with everything...
And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.”
― Marina Keegan

“Extrapolating this into the realm of strangers, I worry that if we let our real-life interactions be corralled by our filter bubbles and branded identities, we are also running the risk of never being surprised, challenged, or changed—never seeing anything outside of ourselves, including our own privilege.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“I suggest that we reimagine #FOMO as #NOMO, the necessity of missing out,”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“Das Leben ist kein Nullsummenspiel. Es schuldet einem nichts, und die Dinge passieren, wie sie passieren. Manchmal gerecht, so dass alles einen Sinn ergibt, manchmal so ungerecht, dass man an allem zweifelt. Ich zog dem Schicksal die Maske vom Gesicht und fand darunter nur den Zufall.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

“In meinem Innern ahnte ich, dass ich vom Weg abgekommen war. Das Problem war nur, dass ich nicht wusste, wann und wo. Ich wusste nicht mal mehr, von welchem Weg.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

“Allein hier draußen wurde mir mit einem körperlichen Schmerz bewusst, dass ich meine Zeit nicht genutzt hatte. Um Minuten gekämpft, wenn es darum ging, einen Bus noch zu erreichen. Jahre verschwendet, weil ich nicht das getan hatte, was ich wollte.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

“There were things I couldn’t say; I could only write them. Because when I spoke, I thought; and when I wrote, I felt.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

“Wir sind von Geburt an auf der Titanic. Wir gehen unter, wir werden das hier nicht überleben, das ist bereits entschieden. Nichts kann das ändern. Aber wir können wählen, ob wir schreiend und panisch umherlaufen, oder ob wir wie die Musiker sind, die tapfer und in Würde weiterspielen, obwohl das Schiff versinkt.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

“Life is not a zero‐sum game. It owes us nothing, and things just happen the way they do. Sometimes they’re fair and everything makes sense; sometimes they’re so unfair we question everything. I pulled the mask off the face of Fate, and all I found beneath it was chance.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

“Alles ging so schnell vorbei, nie wusste man sein Glück zu schätzen, immer erst hinterher. Altbekanntes Zeug. Das Leben war nicht besonders einfallsreich. Es brachte immer den gleichen Trick, und trotzdem fiel jeder drauf rein.”
― Benedict Wells, Spinner

“Ich fragte mich, wie es weitergehen würde, und war beängstigt, aber auch fasziniert von der Antwort, dass ich es einfach nicht wusste. Ich wusste nur, dass ich das ganze letzte Jahr ziemlich nah am Abgrund gewesen war. Doch es gibt Fehler, die notwendig sind. Manchmal muss man ein kleines bisschen sterben, um wieder ein wenig mehr zu leben.”
― Benedict Wells, Spinner

“It’s . . . From the moment we’re born we’re on the Titanic. We’re going down, we won’t survive this, it’s already been decided. Nothing can change that. But we can choose whether we’re going to run around screaming in panic, or whether we’re like the musicians who play on, bravely and with dignity, although the ship is sinking.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit