Sabin

“We are gods with anuses.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic thesis of Christian anthropology, namely that man was created in God's image. Either/or: either man was created in God's image - and has intestines! - or God lacks intestines and man is not like him.

The ancient Gnostics felt as I did at the age of five. In the second century, the Great Gnostic master Valentinus resolved the damnable dilemma by claiming that Jesus "ate and drank, but did not defecate."

Shit is a more onerous theological problem than is evil. Since God gave man freedom, we can, if need be, accept the idea that He is not responsible for man's crimes. The responsibility for shit, however, rests entirely with Him, the creator of man.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Atârnați tăblițe deasupra mormintelor, ciopliți în piatră că totul a fost degeaba! Spuneți-le asta și morților!...”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

“A te gândi la moarte e ca și cum te-ai gândi la viitor. Atunci când te gândești la ea și când o vezi, se petrece ceva cu timpul. Pe lângă teama de moarte există și atracția ei...”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War