Lend me a hand

"Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins."

--Franz Kafka

"The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand." --Fred Allen

"This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves." --Friedrich Nietzsche

"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."  --Eric Hoffer

"It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards." --Arthur Schopenhauer

Proceed into darkness

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.” ― Franz Kafka