Joshua Q.

“What had Pledger-Brown said? "Too bad, Davey; he wanted blood and all we could offer was guts.”
― Robertson Davies, The Manticore

“To be sick, to be neurotic, if you like, is to ask for guarantees. The neurotic is the flounder that lies on the bed of the river, securely settled in the mud, waiting to be speared. For him, death is the only certainty, and dread of that grim certainty immobilizes him in a living death far more horrible than the one he imagines but knows nothing about.”
― Henry Miller, The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus, Plexus, Nexus

“Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“If we tried to rely entirely on reason and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse – a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.”
― Thomas Nagel