“Life seemed nearest to acceptable at four A.M.”
“Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.”
“The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.”
“because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.”
“If you expect life to be easy, challenges will seem difficult. If you accept that challenges may occur, life will be easier.”
“Four A.M. and the darkness had a quality of inexorability and menace as though it would never lift, as though, without anyone noticing it, the dawn of the day before had been the beginning of the last light ever in the history of the world.”