“Life is sad. Here is someone.”— Lorrie Moore Related Quotes “My shadow is tired walking with me; but I have yet to be bored walking with myself, all by myself…”— Munia Khan “Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.”– Vaclav Havel “Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.”– Octavio Paz