April seems to be the worst time of the year for students, by far. The weather actually grows warmer and more inviting, after what feels like forever during winter. This means that students will either cave into temptation and abandon their work to relax in the sun, or they’ll stay strong and keep working, resulting in much resentment and grumbling about how much they’d rather be outside, relaxing in the sun. And speaking of work, the later half of April into early May means only one thing for students: due dates. Deadlines for all major papers, exams, and projects usually fall right within this range, resulting in the complete and total obliteration of the true inner calm of any student. If any of them tell you that they’re doing just fine this time of year, assume that they’re lying. That’s just the truth of how it goes.

As such, I figured both students and post-grad adults alike, could enjoy a few quality quotes from quality people right about now. Some are inspirational, some are humorous, and some are sobering and moving. No matter what, if you spend enough time to think about them properly, not only will you enrich yourself a little as a person, you’ll also become a little distracted from the process of burning a hole into your stomach via a stomach ulcer that's being produced from all of your unwarranted stress. So, without further ado, here are a few more of my favorite quotes. Enjoy.

1. "Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.".
—Flannery O’Connor

2. "I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning."

—Haruki Murakami

3. "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"

—Robert Browning

4. “Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music, and death a note unsaid.” —Langston Hughes

5. "To be unaware of one's form is to live a death.” —Ralph Ellison

6. "Nothing is innocent...but nothing, I would like to think, remains unrepentant."
--Eula Biss

7. “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”

--Kurt Vonnegut

8. "Thy years wants wit, thy wits wants edge."

--William Shakespeare

9. "You're something to make a man forget to grow old and forget to die."

--Zora Neale Hurston

10. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”

—J.R.R. Tolkien