1. “We live, as we dream – alone…” (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness)
2. “Droll thing life is – that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose.” (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness)
3. “Few can foresee whither their roads will lead them, till they come to its end.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers)
4. “None knows what the new day shall bring to him.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers)
5. “… where there’s life there’s hope and need of vittles.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers)
6. “… straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.” (Hermann Hesse, Magister Ludi – The Glass Bead Game)
7. “You gotta be careful in life.” (John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces)
8. “Things can always be worse off.” (John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces)
9. “Everyone takes, everyone gives, such is life… Everyone gives what he has. The warrior gives strength, the merchant gives merchandise, the teacher teachings, the farmer rice, the fisher fish.” (Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha)
10. “Nothing was, nothing will be; everything is, everything has existence and is present.” (Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha)
11. “… only the weak are sent out on paths without perils.” (Hermann Hesse, Magister Ludi – The Glass Bead Game)
