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Indeed, I define as religious any ideal of being absolved from the pain of loss.
Martin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
I believe in hope as an act of defiance, or rather as the foundation for an ongoing series of acts of defiance,
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
What I call religious faith is any form of belief in an eternal being or an eternity beyond being, either in the form of a timeless repose (such as nirvana), a transcendent God, or an immanent, divine Nature.
Martin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
The objections of a personality are due to fear. Fear of Being nothing, extermination.
Gilbert Schultz • Self Illumination
Contemplating annihilation can certainly be a valuable means of reckoning with death, loss, abandonment and a capricious universe, but one can also detect the rumbling of a bad conscience – a dark suspicion that the end might be richly deserved. Usually, a writer will pass some kind of judgment on the world that is in peril. It is not hard to tell ... See more
Dorian Lynskey • ‘End of the World Vibes’: Why Culture Can’t Stop Thinking About Apocalypse
I snorted derision at this idea.
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
Nonexistence is just a barren nothing, while anti-existence is a devout resistance to living.
Shannon Lee • Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
Pure Reason has a low tolerance for anything that is not Pure Reason, which is, I offer, a bit unreasonable.