/lit/ - Literature

I'll post a few that I liked a lot.

"Not to be born is best
when all is reckoned in, but once a man has seen the light
the next best thing, by far, is to go back
back where he came from, quickly as he can."

"My immortality is necessary if only because God will not be guilty of injustice and extinguish altogether the flame of love for Him once kindled in my heart."

"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."

"And it will be easier, remember, to bend thy will to love one who adores thee, than to lead one to love thee who abhors thee now."

"For the long, looming days lay up a thousand things
closer to pain than pleasure, and the pleasures disappear,
you look and know not where
when a man's outlived his limit, plunged in age
and the good comrade comes who comes at last to all,
not with a wedding-song, no lyre, no singers dancing—
the doom of the Deathgod comes like lightning
always death at the last."