We are eternal; all this pain is an illusion.
Tool - Parabola
I don't want it, I just need it - to breathe, to feel, to know I'm alive.
Tool - Stinkfist
Shroud of virtue, hung to mask your stigma, as I smile and laugh and dance and sing your glory.
Tool - Intolerance
She's got everything I need: pharmacy keys.
A Perfect Circle - The Nurse Who Loved Me
Reason leads to self-preservation; a potent force.
Dexter - S03E06
Choose your future. Choose life. But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
Trainspotting - Intro
People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored. But what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid.
Trainspotting - Middle
But, that's gonna change - I'm going to change. This is the last of that sort of thing. Now I'm cleaning up and I'm moving on, going straight and choosing life. I'm looking forward to it already. I'm gonna be just like you. The job, the family, the fucking big television...Getting by, looking ahead to the day you die.
Trainspotting - End
Human beings are the only species with a history. Whether they also have a future is not so obvious.
Noam Chomsky - Necessary Illusions