“Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.”
“Maturity, Bokonon tells us, is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists”
“And they are unjust to us often, for when they find life bitter they blame us for it, and when they find it sweet we do not taste its sweetness with them.”
“It's how we survive the hurt in life that brings us strength and gives us beauty.”
“It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.”
“What if I just want to die?""Then I will be sad and disappointed that you cheated yourself out of your chance at existence. Not all of us have that opportunity, you know, to choose life.”