“Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.”

“To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was “system,” an indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was “industry,” indecision when right was “caution,” and blind stubbornness when wrong, “determination.””

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

“Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it's hard. I know that might not help you and that the right thing isn't always so easy to figure out.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

“Any idiot can face a crisis—it’s day to day living that wears you out.”

Clifford Odets (1906–1963) Playwright, screenwriter, director, actor

“When you think of the silly things people have said to you which have stopped you from saying the same silly things, you simply can’t do justice to your gratitude.”

Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)

“There is nothing that can take the pain away. But eventually you will find a way to live with it. There will be nightmares. And every day when you wake up, it will be the first thing you think about. Until one day, it will be the second thing.”

Raymond Reddington

“The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.”

Francine Prose (1947) American writer

“There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

“It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl