„Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.“

— Thomas Wolfe

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„Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.“
— Haruki Murakami
„All that exists that can be denied deserves to be denied; and being truthful means: to believe in an existence that can in no way be denied and which is itself true and without falsehood.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.“
— Hunter S. Thompson
„We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„Life is suffering.Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated.Truth is the handmaiden of love.Dialogue is the pathway to truth.Humility is recognition of personal insufficiency and the willingness to learn.To learn is to die voluntarily and be born again, in great ways and small.So speech must be untrammeled, so that dialogue can take place,so that we can all humbly learn,so that truth can serve love,so that suffering can be ameliorated,so that we can all stumble forward to the Kingdom of God.“
— Jordan Peterson