... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.
Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.