“It’s one of the maddening perversities of human psychology that we only notice we’re alive when we’re reminded we’re going to die,”
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
“(People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist most fiercely within themselves.)”
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
“Reproduction as raison d’être has always seemed to me to beg the whole question of existence. If the ultimate purpose of your life is your children, what’s the purpose of your children’s lives? To have your grandchildren? Isn’t anyone’s life ultimately meaningful in itself?”
― Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
― Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
“Squandering time is a luxury of profligate youth, when the years are to us as dollars are to billionaires. Doing the same thing in middle age just makes you nervous, not with vague puritan guilt but the more urgent worry that you're running out of time, a deadline you can feel in your cells.”
― We Learn Nothing
― We Learn Nothing
“If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're jeopardizing your relationship with God, the only thing that's eternal.”
― Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
― Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
Samavia’s 2025 Year in Books
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