Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.

More from As I Lay Dying (1930)

• It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
• A gentleman can live through anything.
• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
• A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune.
• Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
• Clocks slay time. Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.