You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

Jezus, ik ga niet zo iemand worden die het er altijd maar over heeft wat hij gaat doen. Ik ga het gewoon doen. Je de toekomst voorstellen is een soort nostalgie.''Huh?' vroeg ik. 'Je zit je hele leven in het labyrint vast, overdenkend hoe je er ooit uit zult ontsnappen, en hoe geweldig dat zal zijn, en dat beeld van de toekomst houdt je op de been, maar je doet het nooit. Je gebruikt de toekomst alleen maar om aan het heden te ontsnappen.

You didn't sleep?""No! The dreams are terrible. In my dreams, she doesn't even look like herself anymore. I don't even remember what she looked like.

that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we have to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" In reality, "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" were probably not Simon Bolivar's last words (although he did, historically, say them). His last words may have been "Jose! Bring the luggage. They do not want us here." The significant source for "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" is also Alaska's source, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The General in his Labyrinth.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. - Alaska

I choose the labyrinth.

That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?