It will all come to an end, with a crash and a bang or a whisper. But before that, there must be a start – do not meet your end before you begin something.

Momus Najmi

“He looked sadly down at the street, as though it were his own bottomless sadness.”– Amerika, Franz Kafka

In all my great moments I have been alone. ‘One could make ananimal — a tissue — transparent! One could make it invisible! All except the pigments — I could be invisible!’ – The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells

“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.”

– The Sea, John Banville

“Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on…. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes.”
– Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami

“The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.”
― The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie

“Age makes you notice certain things. For example, I now know that a man’s life is broadly divided into three periods. During the first, it doesn’t even occur to us that one day we will grow old, we don’t think that time passes or that from the day we are born we’re all walking toward a common end. After the first years of youth comes the second period, in which a person becomes aware of the fragility of life and what begins like a simple niggling doubt rises inside you like a flood of uncertainties that will stay with you for the rest of your days. Finally, toward the end of life, the period of acceptance begins, and, consequently, of resignation, a time of waiting. – The Prince of Mist – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip . . . ” – The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened. – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

“Everyone gets a monster. Sometimes they are big, sometimes they are ugly, and sometimes they are nothing like that. But they all look like the one thing that scares you the most. And that is how it keeps your other nightmares away: it scares them, too.”
―The Music of Razors, Cameron Rogers