1. “Do you believe we are masters of ourselves or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?” -Winston Graham

2. “You stand there, braced. Cloud shadows race back over the buff rock stacks as a projected film, casting a queasy, mottled ground rash. The air hisses and it is no local breeze but the great harsh sweep of wind from the turning of the earth. The wild country -- indigo jags of mountain, grassy plain everlasting, tumbled stones like fallen cities, the flaring roll of sky -- provokes a spiritual shudder. It is like a deep note that cannot be heard but is felt, it is like a claw in the gut.” -Annie Proulx

3. “There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.” -Julian Barnes

4. "Struggle is what it means to be alive and free." –David Budbill

5. “A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can [be] exacerbated by other confusing life questions.” -Kilroy J. Oldster

6. “Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.” -Jean-Paul Sartre

7. “Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.” -Albert Camus

8. "The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile, but that it is indifferent." -Stanley Kubrick

9. "All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?" -Bertrand Russell

10. “What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?” ---Søren Kierkegaard