Call for favorite quotes and why!

Have you ever told yourself this life is too hard? Have you wished that God had chosen Satan's plan in the beginning allowing us to feel less pain in order to receive a body and gain eternal glory? I have!

Well, this book reminds me of why I'm glad life is real, with both the good and the bad.

Hence, my favorite quote is:

"Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"

The whole quest of the society in this book revolves around erasing problems, which has erased free agency, individuality, and feelings. This is a nice representative quote for the book. The quote reminds me of a poem by a famous French poet, Paul Verlaine, "Il pleure dans mon coeur". The English translation reads:

There is weeping in my heart
like the rain falling on the town.
What is this languor
that pervades my heart?

Oh the patter of the rain
on the ground and the roofs!
For a heart growing weary
oh the song of the rain!

There is weeping without cause
in this disheartened heart.
What! No betrayal?
There's no reason for this grief.

Truly the worst pain
is not knowing why,
without love or hatred,
my heart feels so much pain.

I can imagine the wife of Guy Montag, Linda, relating to this poem. Guy is saying that we should be passionate and care about real things, while Linda and this poem express the deep sadness and emptiness that is caused by not having anything important to feel about. Sometimes, my husband gives me a hard time about how emotional and passionate I am about everything. Ha, I feel justified!

Here's another quote that is up the same alley:

"Stuff your eyes with wonder ... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away."