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By Nightfall
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"By Nightfall" Quotes

An art dealer's life is upended when his wife's troubled younger brother comes to stay with them.

Quotes

The whole point of life is the slow discovery, the surrender to the inevitable truth that you’re going to die, and that alone should make you want to live.

Michael Cunningham

lifemortality

We have to be better than we think we can be. Better than I think I can be.

Michael Cunningham

self-improvement

We’re all just trying to find the path back to the present moment, the only thing that’s ever real.

Michael Cunningham

mindfulnessreality

The only way to live a life worth living is to fight, to be brave, to do what you believe in, even if it’s not popular.

Michael Cunningham

couragebelief

We are here to love one another, to make one another feel less alone.

Michael Cunningham

lovecompanionship

We’re all damaged in some way, aren’t we? By the people who love us, who are supposed to take care of us. By the world.

Michael Cunningham

emotional scarsrelationships

We tell ourselves that we are the sum of our choices, but our choices are the sum of our fears.

Michael Cunningham

fearself-reflection

We spend our lives trying to be more than we are, and then we die.

Michael Cunningham

ambitionmortality

We all just want to be seen, to be known, to be loved in spite of everything.

Michael Cunningham

acceptancelove

We are all walking around with our own private horrors, our own unspoken anxieties.

Michael Cunningham

anxietyemotional struggles