"When did the soul of man ever appear as if ready for betrayal? When it took leave of a great love, as of a season" - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields... and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?" - J.R.R. Tolkien

"... But I wouldn't trade the pain for what I've learned I wouldn't trade the pain for what I've learned" - P!nk, crystal ball

"We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together." - Terence McKenna

"May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." - Charlotte Brontë

"I spend a lot of time wondering what dying feels like. What dying sounds like. If I’ll burst like those notes, let out my last cries of pain, and then go silent forever. Or maybe I’ll turn into a shadowy static that’s barely there, if you just listen hard enough." - Jasmine warga

"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows." - E.M. Forster

"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony?" - Leo Tolstoy

"I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard." - Gayle Forman

"We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul." - Shannon L. Alder

Still when I wake up, I feel as if I were rising from a grave. gathering my moldy, worm-riddled limbs into a final effort. - Sylvia Plath,

"It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine." - Jonathan Safran Foer

"In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow." - Amit Ray

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." - Rachel Carson

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." - John Muir