Olena Yurchenko

“I’ll tell you a story. There was once a badly wounded man lying on the battle-field waiting for the surgeon to dress his wound, which was covered with flies. A lightly wounded comrade saw the flies and was going to drive them away. ‘Oh, no,’ cried the wounded man, ‘don’t do that! These flies are almost gorged with my blood now and aren’t hurting me nearly so much as they did at first: if you drive them away their place will be taken at once by hungrier ones, and that will be the end of me.”
― Robert Graves, I, Claudius

“And then I realized that all humans were created for death. They were all born as little struggling innocents, learning to live before they knew what it was about.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“Cynicism is just a way of evading the truth a little longer.”
― Ian Kirkpatrick, Plead More, Bodymore

“To prosper and to be happy in this life, you have to enter into a Faustian contract with the Prince of Darkness. This is what I realized at last. But it was too late, you see. Even the Devil has a cut-off for age. And they blame these companies, corporations and educational institutes for not being accommodating enough.”
― Abhaidev, The World's Most Frustrated Man