Nathan Crofton-Bond

“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

“Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.”
― Paul A.M. Dirac

“Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.”
― Paul A.M. Dirac

“When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death