Mabli

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

“It was the sound of the god of death from one of the forgotten religions, the one that got it right, upstaging the pretenders with their billions of duped faithful. Every god ever manufactured by the light of cave fires to explain the thunder or calling forth the fashionable supplications in far-flung temples was the wrong one. He had come around after all this time, preening as he toured the necropolis, his kingdom risen at last.”
― Colson Whitehead, Zone One

“For us, at the Highest Possible Level, there is nothing left to do in this Universe, and to create another Universe, in my opinion, would be in extremely poor taste.”
― Stanisław Lem, The Cyberiad

“Too much beauty undermines the marriage vows, too much knowledge leads to isolation, and too much wealth produces madness.”
― Stanisław Lem, The Cyberiad