“ Love transports mortal beings to the existential plane of spiritual eternity transcending the emotional, mental, and physical limitations of an inaccurately perceived finite existence. Ken Poirot
“ ...the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die. Calvin Trillin
“ Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral. Jean-Paul Sartre
“ He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet's intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the… Richard Matheson
“ I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. Jean-Paul Sartre
“ If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything. Franz Kafka
“ The universe is a meat grinder and we're just pork in designer shoes, keeping busy so we can pretend we're not all headed for the sausage factory. Maybe I've been hallucinating this whole time and the… Richard Kadrey
“ She laughed. 'It won't last. Nothing lasts. But I'm happy now.''Happy,' I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most peopl… Hunter S. Thompson
“ He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos because he knew the house had all the percentages. And beneath his pessimism, his bleak conviction th… Hunter S. Thompson
“ What mattered to me in my dispeopled kingdom, that in regard to which the disposition of my carcass was the merest and most futile of accidents, was supineness in the mind, the dulling of the self and… Samuel Beckett
“ We all have an opportunity and responsibility to create a legacy. A legacy which is resilient, sustainable and authentic." - Jim Cookson, Doctoral Student, Ashridge Business School, UK, August 2014 Jim Cookson
“ We've been dead for thousands and thousands of years. Dead or sleeping, depends on how you feel about it at any given moment. But that's okay. The trouble starts when you are born, then everything bec… Asghar Abbas
“ I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I am witnessing a revelation or a more efficient blinding. Ralph Ellison
“ Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves diminishes us -- because comfort and power, unless th… Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
“ I always imagined that you might write something about me. I wanted to leave an imprint on your life. I don’t want to be just another patient. I wanted to be special. I want to be something, anything.… Irvin D. Yalom
“ I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to their deaths, for it is our nature to banish such thoughts. Seth Grahame-Smith
“ All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These… Hunter S. Thompson
“ Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment… Tom Stoppard
