Danilo Aleixo

“E se somos Severinos
iguais em tudo na vida,
morremos de morte igual,
mesma morte severina:
que é a morte que se morre
de velhice antes dos trinta,
de emboscada antes dos vinte,
de fome um pouco por dia.”
― João Cabral de Melo Neto, Morte e Vida Severina e Outros Poemas Para Vozes

“But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey?
Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“Where there are kings, there must be the greatest cowards. For men’s souls are enslaved and refuse to run risks readily and recklessly to increase the power of somebody else. But independent people, taking risks on their own behalf and not on behalf of others, are willing and eager to go into danger, for they themselves enjoy the prize of victory.”
― David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

“The complaint of the depressive individual, “Nothing is possible,” can only occur in a society that thinks, “Nothing is impossible.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society