The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.
Mark TwainBut death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was manโs best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.
Mark TwainAnnihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.
Mark Twain