- Nando Parrado
"We men are wretched things..."
- In Homer's The Iliad
"I stopped running from death."
- Nando Parrado
"Silence is a true friend who never betrays."
- Confucius; link this to the provisions in the Fifth Precept
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
- Confucius
"Life is more simple than what we think. We really make it more complex."
- Roberto Canessa
"We receive from life a lot more than what we need and we do a lot less than what we can with it. If you have decent food to eat, a bed, water..."
- Roberto Canessa
- Epictetus
"But where there is death, or exile or pain or infamy, there we attempt or examine to run away, there we are struck with terror."
- Epictetus
"When the Greeks sacked a city in internal warfare, everyone would be enslaved. But they did not remember, when their bards sang of their victories, that they had denied human rights of other Greek city-states."
- Jonathan Bowden, Credo
"You want to put some kind of explanation down here before you leave? Here's one as good as any you can find:
We've been banished by the creator."
- John in the original Day of the Dead
"We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most humane, is still soaked with the sense of exile."
- J.R.R. Tolkien
"But the myth of a lost paradise haunts our dreams."
- Father Aidan Kimel
"Eating, sleeping, copulating, excreting, and the like; what a crew they are! How pompous in their arrogance, how over-bearing and tyrannical..."
- Marcus Aurelius
Mary Reilly: "They said you have an illness. What sort of an illness?"
Dr. Jekyll: "You might call it a fracture in my soul. Something which left me with a taste for oblivion."
