The Passage (The Passage, #1)

by Justin Cronin

So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

This is a dark thought to be sure—it’s a sentence about suicide—but it made sense to me in the psychological context of the novel. First Colony is on its last legs. The population is collapsing. The batteries are failing. First Colony is humanity’s lifeboat, and it’s taking on water faster than its inhabitants can bail. It’s an excruciating way to live.