Dave

“Often we ask ourselves
to make absolute sense
out of what just happens,
and in this way, what we are practicing

is suffering,
which everybody practices,
but strangely few of us
grow graceful in.”
― Tony Hoagland

“You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal”
― Martin Amis, Money

“And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be
like barbed wire to keep out despair,
hope must be a mine field.”
― Yehuda Amichai

“The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.”
― Michel Houellebecq