Joshua Q.

“What had Pledger-Brown said? "Too bad, Davey; he wanted blood and all we could offer was guts.”
― Robertson Davies, The Manticore

“To be sick, to be neurotic, if you like, is to ask for guarantees. The neurotic is the flounder that lies on the bed of the river, securely settled in the mud, waiting to be speared. For him, death is the only certainty, and dread of that grim certainty immobilizes him in a living death far more horrible than the one he imagines but knows nothing about.”
― Henry Miller, The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus, Plexus, Nexus

“Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated.
"Why one makes such a fuss about things," Anthony suggested. "All that howling and hurrahing and gnashing of teeth. About the adventures of a self that isn't really a self—just the result of a lot of accidents. And of course," he went on, "once you start wondering, you see at once that there is no reason for making such a fuss. And then you don't make a fuss—that is, if you're sensible. Like me," he added, smiling.”
― Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza