Quote by Jarod Kintz

“I had never known there were so many people on earth.”

— Philipp Meyer

“I don’t need a thousand people to know I existed. I just want someone to know I lived.”

— Whitney Barbetti

“You have to ask it something it knew when it was alive. People don't become omniscient just because they have keeled over.”

— Lish McBride

“Most human beings come into the world and leave it with nothing to show they ever lived.”

— Tim Gilmore

“When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“What happened to you was done out of a fear of extinction, and while that doesn't make it excusable, it at least makes it…

— Dan Wells

“Now I am a grown woman. No one knows me more than I want them to. It was self preservation. If everyone knew so…

— N. Torres

“I will never know you, nothing about you, what has died inside you, what has lived invisibly. I am elsewhere now.”

— Aleksandar Hemon

“If no one knows you, then you are no one.”

— Dan Chaon

“But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.”

— Cecelia Ahern

“I am a living being regardless of my knowledge, which exists only because I exist.”

— Miguel Ruiz Jr

“That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something…

— Stephen Chbosky