When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
Shakespeare
I don’t care what you think of me. I don’t think of you at all.
There wasn’t a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of important things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.
Kobo Abe, Woman in the Dunes
The reason you haven’t felt love is because it doesn’t exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons. You’re born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I’m living like there’s no tomorrow, because there isn’t one.
Don Draper, Mad Men
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas