"Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim. It is absurd to look upon the enormous amount of pain that abounds everywhere in the world, and originates in needs and necessities inseparable from life itself, as serving no purpose at all and the result of mere chance. Each separate misfortune, as it comes, seems, no doubt, to be something exceptional; but misfortune in general is the rule." - Arthur Schopenhauer

". . . meaning can never quite penetrate reality, but that without meaning, reality would disintegrate into the nothingness of inessentiality." - Georg Lukacs

"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a mans heart." - Albert Camus