“In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”
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Carl Sagan365
American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science ed… 1934–1996Related quotes
“Habit makes all things bearable.”
Quod male fers, adsuesce, feres bene.
Ovid book Ars amatoria
Book II, line 647 (tr. James Michie)
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Carl Sagan book Pale Blue Dot
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 46
Context: We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid and fluffy, and Hell is like the inside of a volcano. In many stories, both realms are governed by dominance hierarchies headed by gods or devils. Monotheists talked about the king of kings. In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe. Few found the similarity suspicious.
Neil Gaiman (1960) English fantasy writer
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
“Connecting with others during difficult times makes the trials more bearable.”
John Townsend (1952) Canadian clinical psychologist and author
Where Is God (2009, Thomas Nelson publishers)
“Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.”
Harold Bloom (1930–2019) American literary critic and scholar
