Gorana

“There is no particular merit in being nice to one's fellow man... We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is a result of our emotions - love apathy, charity of malice - and what part is predetermines by the constant power play among individuals.
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buries from view), consists of attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental débâcle, a débâcle so fundamental all others stem from it.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Frodo: 'It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill Gollum when he had the chance.'
Gandalf: 'Pity? It's a pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play in it, for good or evil, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.' Frodo: 'I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.'
Gandalf: 'So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides that of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, in which case you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“ČEŽNJA
Događa se to u jesenjoj noći kada pada kestenje po asfaltu i kada se čuju psi u daljini, i kada se tako neopisivo javlja čežnja za nekim tko bi bio dobar, naš, bliz, intiman, drug, i kome bi mogli da pišemo pismo. Ispovjedili bismo mu sve što leži na nama. Pismo bi mu pisali, a njega nema.­ ­”
― Miroslav Krleža

“Maybe you and I and the fish exist only in the memory of a person who is gone. Maybe no one really exists, and it’s only raining outside. Maybe the bird never existed at all. -Boy (Angel's Egg)”
― Mamoru Oshii, Angel's Egg / Tenshi No Tamago