Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong
James Branch CabellFor all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his body: and yet the body of man is capable of much curious pleasure.
James Branch CabellPeople marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
James Branch CabellI fear You and, yes, I love You: and yet I cannot believe. Why could You not let me believe, where so many believed? Or else, why could You not let me deride, as the remainder derided so noisily? O God, why could You not let me have faith? for You gave me no faith in anything, not even in nothingness. It was not fair.
James Branch Cabell