Kira Rich

“All human affairs rest upon probabilities, and the same thing is true everywhere. If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted would betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every great fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.”
― Charles Sanders Peirce

“Did we force ourselves on you, or you on us?”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible...”
― William Gaddis, The Recognitions