Love is a contradiction if there is no God. - Miguel de Unamuno

A pedant who beheld Solon weeping for the death of a son said to him, ‘Why do you weep thus, if weeping avails nothing?’ And the sage answered him, ‘Precisely for that reason — because it does not avail.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.

أتعرف ما هو الجحيم؟ أتعرف أين هو الجحيم؟
- في منتصف السماء يقولون
أو ربما في منتصف بطن عاقر.