He: It is our compelling mission to discover the World.

She: What I like the most about you is your provocative freedom.

He: The only true vocation in life is happiness.

She: You are the idol and the enemy.

He: Our lives are still untarnished by regret.

She: Only in my shuttered heart can I address you.

He: Our allegiance is to life.

Droll thing life is
-that mysterious arrangement
of merciless logic
for a futile purpose.

The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself,
-that comes too late-a crop
of unextinguishable regrets.

I have wrestled with death.
It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around,

Tomorrow, and tomorrow,
and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace
from day to day,
To the last syllable
of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays
have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.

without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right,
and still less in that of
your adversary.
Joseph Conrad

Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow,
a poor player
That struts and frets
his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more:

it is a tale
Told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare