Christopher

“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.”
― John Steinbeck

“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays