A universal experience

you go through absolutely alone.

The whole world at your fingertips.

The ocean at your door.

– Bo Burnham, Inside

God, how we get our fingers

 in each other’s clay. 

That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make together.

– Ray Bradbury, Something wicked this way comes

We can understand things better.

We can never understand things fully. 

– David Deutsch

How many good things do we not do

out of fear of being seen as a villain.

I mean, after all,

you have to consider we’re only made out of dust.

– Philip K Dick, The three stigmata of palmer eldritch

Freedom that was a thing to use

They’ve made a thing to save 
And staked it in and fenced it round 
Like a dead man’s grave.

– Archibald MacLeish

To live is so startling

it leaves little room for anything else.

– Emily Dickinson