Robert

“But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

“People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none?

For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung