Dlanor A. Knox — memorable quote from Umineko: When They Cry

“Humans are pitiful beings, walking forward their backs to the future gazing at the past. This is why they fail to notice the simplest pitfalls and stumble tragically and comically.”

“People live to save themselves.”

“Giving people what they want only results in temporary delight, and that you can only make a select few people happy that way.”

“I despise common sense. I’ve seen the world from every possible angle. This cruel, ridiculous, beautiful world.”

“People who’ve had lots of failures talk about those failures as if to imply that if they have another life, they’ll be a big success. After facing all that hardship, they think they won’t mess up again. But they’re all - me included, of course - making a fundamental mistake. Failures know a lot about failure, sure. But knowing failure is completely different from knowing success. Fixing your mistakes doesn’t mean success takes their place - you’ve just got a point to start at, is all. That’s something failures don’t understand.”