“What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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