Being alive isn't about breathing or being organic. Being alive means that you can freely make choices and feel the consequences that come with them. If you are powerless to make those choices, you might as well be dead.

To be set ablaze by infernal backfire. That is the fate of those who don't think about their choices. To die standing oblivious by an omnidirectional vortex. That is the fate of those who are too weak to make a choice. To fall endlessly into the empty abyss. That is the fate of those who foolishly believe that all of their choices are the best ones.

There is no such thing as punishment in the abyss, natural consequences bought on by our own folly remain solitary as truth.

When you take delight in watching someone you believe hurt you suffer, it is not justice, it is cold revenge.

Pain is the greatest enemy of all sentient beings. It can drive anybody into a dark and cold place where nobody recognizes their existence. People will have you believe that being driven into that dark place is easily avoidable, but that is naive. No matter how strong you believe yourself to be, you are but one person and there is only so much that one person can take. To one who has absolutely nobody that cares, that dark place is the only thing they know.

Some things you sentence yourself to life for.