“How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.”
“The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.”
“Maybe that's all real love was--just something that happened quickly and vanished, a kind of gesture to a stranger or a fleeting moment of passion.”
“The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.”
“Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.”
“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”