Chuck Jones

“Knowledge is sometimes painful, but the pain is how you learn.”
― Brandon Applegate, Those We Left Behind, and Other Sacrifices

“I keep myself together by living other people’s pain,” he said eventually with an indescribably lonesome smile. “It’s like the expression ‘the man who goes mummy hunting ends up a mummy himself . . .’ Do you understand what it’s like to be honest through lies?”
― Keiichirō Hirano, A Man

“The despair is only an illusion, a trick the darkness plays.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“The value of it. The value of a human life.’ Kawahara shook her head like a teacher with an exasperating student. ‘You are still young and stupid. Human life has no value. Haven’t you learned that yet, Takeshi, with all you’ve seen? It has no value, intrinsic to itself. Machines cost money to build. Raw materials cost money to extract. But people?’ She made a tiny spitting sound. ‘You can always get some more people. They reproduce like cancer cells, whether you want them or not. They are abundant, Takeshi. Why should they be valuable?”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon