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“What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.”

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Robert M. Gates is a former United States Secretary of Defense, born on September 25, 1943. He has extensive experience in American politics and the military, holding several key positions in government. more

“In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.”

Ifs Knows World Life Done Might Gone Figures Rings Our World Crap Volcanoes Clueless

Book:The Magicians Trilogy

Source: The Magicians Trilogy

“But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?”

Life Enough Terrible Awful Starks Hollowness

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she'd looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn't joking. He was warning her.”

Source: The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

“They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes you apart and reassembles you. You are a Frankenstein of circumstance, and the parts never fit back quite right and the life you live is a stolen one. You don't deserve to walk among the living, and you know it.”

Knows Life Happens Walks Fit Circumstances Pure Deserve Bullshit Stolen Finding Peace Unspeakable

Book:In the Blood: Chilling grip-lit with a breathtaking twist you won't see coming

Source: In the Blood: Chilling grip-lit with a breathtaking twist you won't see coming

“Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.”

World Life Matter Lying Stars Moral Darkness Cutting Truth Is Skins Leaving Statements Delusion Scar Tissues Things That Matter Mirages Only Thing That Matters Scar Tissue

Book:Mr. Mercedes: A Novel

Source: Mr. Mercedes: A Novel

“It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.”

Ifs Life Would Be Existence Wonder Failing Prepared Storm Ice Sunset Flats Lifelong Sense Of Wonder Ice Storm

Book:Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Source: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

“But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.”

Men Life Giving Hard Pleasure Giving Up

Book:Thinner

Source: Thinner

“A psycho, they called me. They were right. They were wrong. They couldn't come close to my fire. They couldn't touch my heart.”

Life Heart Fire My Heart Psycho

Author:Meredith Ann Pierce

“Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.”

Life Pain Sides Can Do Half Break Protect

Book:Ghost Story

Source: Ghost Story

“The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.”

Source: THE SHINING

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