Николай Вътков

“There is a rumour going around that I have found god.

I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

– ‘The God Moment’,”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“Jon, did you ever wonder why the men of the Night's Watch take no wives and father no children?'' Maester Aemon asked.

Jon shrugged. ''No.'' He scattered more meat. The fingers of his left hand were slimy with blood and his right throbbed from the weight of the bucket. ''So they will not love'' the old man answered ''for love is the bane of honor, the death of duty”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

“Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter!
spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,
a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King