“On this present, fallen earth there is sorrow, suffering, sickness and death. On the new earth there will be life—everlasting life, unending health, joy, and gladness forever and ever.”

“…That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,
And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree.
Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,
While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.”

“O pray the earth enfold
Our life-sick hearts and turn them into dust.”

“They who bettered life on earth by new-found mastery.”
Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes.

“They sang their mysterious duo, sang of their nameless hope, their death-in-love, their union unending, lost forever in the embrace of night’s magic kingdom. O sweet night, everlasting night of love! Land of blessedness whose frontiers are infinite!”

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

“Life continued, the wheel turned, the earth moved, and even death—that delightful biological necessity—was an aspect of life.”

“Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.”

“Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sorrow.”

“Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy.”