the art of getting by

You're going to have to start using that brain of yours to access that talent of yours to show that beautiful heart of yours. 

Since the dawn of recorded history, something like 110 billion human beings

 have been born into this world. And not a single one of them made it. 

There are 6.8 billion people on the planet. Roughly 60 million of them die every year. 

60 million people. That comes out to about 160,000 per day. 

I read this quote once when I was a kid, “We live alone, we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion. ” 

It used to keep me up at night. We all die alone. 

So, why am I supposed to spend my life working, sweating, struggling?…

For an illusion? 

Because no amount of friends, no girl, no assignments about conjugating the pluperfect or determining the square root of the hypotenuse is gonna help me avoid my fate. I have better things to do with my time.

 I have fears but I thought they were pretty run-of-the-mill: pain, death. 

 - Not me. I fear life.

 I have no idea what I'm doing here. 

- I don't think anybody does, at least you admit it. 

Women like being desired. Just throw her up against a wall and start kissing her. Chances are she'll kiss you back, and if she doesn't, at least you tried. You've got to do something or else you'll lose her. 

We're just friends. 

- There's no such thing. 

I don't have anything to say.
- Find something!

Everything seemed meaningless. Including the assignment, unfortunately.

Find what you care about, what you believe.

Ich dachte du wärst richtig cool... ich kenn wohl niemanden der cool ist.

We live alone, we die alone, everything else is just an illusion.

Just be careful, they have an easier time of getting by than you do.

You know ticklish people make great lovers.

There’s so many more important things to think about. Homework ends up seeming like an afterthought… It’s more like we’re living in a dying time, you know. I mean, you’ve got global warming, wars, terrorism, tsunamis. We’re definitely on the downhill side so what are we looking towards? What’s the point?

I want you to look in the mirror..
and find something you never had the courage to say before.