Jamarion Quotes & Sayings

Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others. — Emile M. Cioran

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity? — Marcus Aurelius

What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots? — Cassandra Clare

He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth. — George Bernard Shaw

Election has nothing to do with the eternal salvation of individuals but refers instead to God's way of saving nations. It was a major mistake of the Reformation to have decided to follow Augustine in this matter, taking election to refer to grace and salvation. It manages to make bad news out of good news. It casts a deep shadow over the character of God. At it worst, it can lead to awful consequences in terms of pride, arrogance, superiority, and intolerance as the ideology of election takes hold. It causes the church to become, not a sign of the unity of humanity in the love of God, but the sign of favorites in the midst of the enemies of God. — Clark H. Pinnock

You're so fragile you've boxed yourself up so you don't break. — Katy Evans

Honesty has a power that very few people can handle — Steven Aitchison

There is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction; so difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingness and to resign ourselves to believe in it. — Gustave Flaubert

While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read. — Nicholson Baker