Mazz

“All nihilists have wrestled with God. One more proof of his kinship with nothingness. After you have trampled everything underfoot, his is the last bastion of nothingness left.”
― Emil M. Cioran, Tears and Saints

“On closer inspection, this cruel and beautiful world is ours, and we are all completely alone and doomed.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“This is how readers over the years have come up with the famous “seven last words of the dying Jesus”—by taking what he says at his death in all four Gospels, mixing them together, and imagining that in their combination they now have the full story. This interpretive move does not give the full story.”
― Bart D. Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible

“like Dostoevsky’s character, I cannot bear the thought that I am simply a piano key, thinking and doing what I must when I’m struck. I want some kind of unpredictability in my behavior. I want freedom. I want some kind of “I-ness” in my brain that is more than the sum of neurons and sodium gates and acetylcholine molecules, a captain who can make decisions on the spot—good or bad decisions, it doesn’t matter.”
― Alan Lightman, The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew