Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.Douglas Coupland
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.C. S. Lewis
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.Henry David Thoreau
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.Anne Frank
I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.Anne Frank
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.Jean Baudrillard
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.Fyodor Dostoevsky