Prince

“...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.”
― Iain Banks, A Song of Stone

“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones