“No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be.' ” She lifted her eyes and her gaze stabbed him. “Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.”
― The Mad Ship
― The Mad Ship
“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.”
― The World of Yesterday
― The World of Yesterday
“Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my
experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of
detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all
from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time,
out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling
was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my
dream.”
― The War of the Worlds
experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of
detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all
from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time,
out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling
was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my
dream.”
― The War of the Worlds
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