32 Quotes by Dara Horn

Eventually Honi asked God to kill him, because he realized he had become superfluous. Which in fact was the entire purpose of life, to live in such a way that one made oneself superfluous. And therein lay the root of the problem. There was no point in any of it, none at all, unless one had plans to leave.

Maybe it’s still worth it to me, even if it doesn’t last forever,” he said. “Maybe you’re still worth it to me.

What makes the soul who it is, if not the choices the person makes while he’s alive?

Did you ever notice that when you read the same book again and again, the book doesn’t change, but you do?

Many days and years and people had passed before she understood that the details themselves were the still and sacred things, that there was nothing else, that the curtain of daily life itself was holy, that behind it was only a void.