Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.
Blaise PascalOnce your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
Blaise PascalLet a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.
Blaise Pascal