"Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?"

"All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is."

"When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift."

"Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart."

"I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile."

"If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?"

"That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it."

"First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air."

"What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation."

"Learn to drive?""Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger."

"Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is."

"She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?"

"We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are."

"In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive."

"Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest."

"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development."

"Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier."

"So since I'm still here livin',I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was born."

"All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know."

"In high seas or in low seas,I'm gonna be your friend...I'm gonna be your friend.In high tide or in low tide,I'll be by your side...I'll be by your side."

"Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands."

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."