'… in a certain sense it seems that not wanting is the only good.'

Just as I was walking by, an old man shuffling along the icy sidewalk fell down. And his wife fell down. Only I was spared. The first thing that came into my head as I helped them up was to say, 'Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, what's going on here?', as if there was way too much falling down going on. The old man was embarrassed, acting perplexed about what manner of bedeviling surfaces he was unfairly forced to contend with. 'Oh, I fall down all the time', I reassured him. (But I don't, not anymore, since I got new winter boots.)

'Oh, bless your heart', his wife told me.

'... there must be something else to strive for, something that seems possible or realizable...'

'An insuperable difficulty is a sun.'

'Im Grunde entspringt dies daraus, daß der Wille an sich selber zehren muß, weil außer ihm nichts da ist und er ein hungriger Wille ist. Daher die Jagd, die Angst und das Leiden.'

'After many years of principled under-achievement, I have accomplished something.'

'... what we call wins and what we call losses.'

On the day of Erica Garner's death, the latter barista wore an I CAN'T BREATHE t-shirt under her apron.

'What I am sure of is that philosophy was meant to challenge the deadening sense that life cannot be lived well.'