“We are so trivial by nature that only amusements can stop us from dying for real. I clung to the movies with desperate fervor.” DyingMoviesAmusementsTriviality Of Life Book:Journey to the End of the Night Source: Journey to the End of the Night
“Everything passed, and what trace of its passage remained? It seemed to Kitty that they were all, the human race, like the drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet so far apart, a nameless flood, to the sea. When all things lasted so short a time and nothing mattered very much, it seemed pitiful that men, attaching an absurd importance to trivial objects, should make themselves and one another so unhappy.” HappinessHumanityKindnessMetaphorHuman RaceTriviality Of Life Book:The Painted Veil Source: The Painted Veil