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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even

Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

Alan Lightman
Live Life, Butterfly, Sadness
Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.47, Vintage

Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.

Alan Lightman
Sadness, Law, Brain
Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.20, Vintage

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

Alan Lightman
Depression, Sadness, Arousal
Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.20, Vintage

I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn't be real.

Alan Lightman
Real, Sadness, Thinking
Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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