“But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender.”
“We losers don't fear death. For us it's the end of a lifelong losing spell.”
“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. ”
“Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, and then, because your fear makes a space for that to happen, it does. What's the point?”
“I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.”
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”