Greg

“Luck was the refuge of a bad operator. Luck meant you'd screwed up, but hadn't been punished for it. It was an ephemeral ghost, coming and going, a construct of the weak-minded who wanted to feel comfort about their vulnerability. Who interpreted their random survival as a virtue, not a simple quirk of probability.”
― Robert Rath

“People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.”
― Terence McKenna

“There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno