Cassandra Pimentel

“Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum. (To such heights of evil are men driven by religion.)”
― Lucretius, The Way Things Are

“There is a kind of sadness in not wanting the things that give so many other people their life’s meaning.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood

“There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.”
― Titus Lucretius Carus, On the Nature of Things

“To have a child is like being a city with a mountain in the middle. Everyone sees the mountain. Everyone in the city is proud of the mountain. The city is built around it. A mountain, like a child, displays something real about the value of that town.
In a life in which there is no child, no one knows anything about your life's meaning. They might suspect it doesn't have one - no centre it is built around. Your life's value is invisible, like the contexts of that young driver's friends.
How wonderful to tread an invisible path, where what matters most can hardly be seen.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood