A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

...the still point in a turning world.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.