Sometimes You Wake Up. Sometimes The Fall Kills You. And Sometimes, When You Fall, You Fly.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Todd Faber; The Sandman: Fables and Reflections Neil Gaiman

Vimes had never got on with any game much more complex than darts. Chess in particular had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the kings lounged about doing nothing that always got to him; if only the pawns united, maybe talked the rooks round, the whole board could've been a republic in a dozen moves.

Thud!; Terry Pratchett

Life is too short for chess.

Henry James Byron

Make sense? Oh, what fun is there in making sense?

Discord, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

Dream, The Sandman: Fables and Reflections Neil Gaiman

It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.

Destruction, The Sandman: The Wake Neil Gaiman