Hope Quote by Steven Erikson

“Now, though, there was a second part, an artifact of his recent illness, as if his melancholy had, in a universe adjacent to this…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“For how could he live with himself, if indeed he did live at all, knowing that his life was so inextricably bound to others,…

— Daniel Wallace

“...for he had learned from others of their kind that death seemed to bring small comfort from the worrisome sphere of life…”

— Neal Barrett Jr

“He did not often think of people as individuals, but rather as antidotes for the poison of his loneliness, as escapes from the imprisoned…

— John Steinbeck

“I had already passed beyond the point of death and was now keeping company with ghosts who had joyfully come to claim me as…

— Paul Sayer

“He would understand, later, that there is a moment when your life must become your own; you must claim it from all the other…

— Anne Michaels

“Anyway, I thought, it's wishful thinking, all this talk of ghosts. If the dead wandered among us, their spirits still present on this earth,…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

“He could not be positive that reason was much help in the conduct of life. It seemed to him that life lived itself. He”

— William Somerset Maugham

“Each believed that the life he himself led was the only real life and the life led by his friend was nothing but an…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”

— Osamu Dazai

“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I…

— John Green

“He did not understand how a life could vanish. How that was even possible. How it could close in an instant before you could…

— Paul Yoon