““How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood-lot. The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.””
![“Here were the luxury and priviledge of the well-fed man scoffing at all hopes and progress for the rest. [He] owed nothing to a world that nurtured him kindly, liberally educated him for free, sent him to no wars, brought him to manhood without scary rituals or famine or fear of vengeful gods…” quote by Ian McEwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c61/ian-mcewan-494_existentialism_here-were-the-luxury-and-priviledge-of-t_2964513.jpg)
![“[On the Human Soul] While the Bible offers a clear distinction that the soul is separate from the body and discusses the idea of eternal life in a general context, it may come as a surprise that the Bible does not specifically indicate that the human soul is immortal. The postulation that we have…” quote by Brian Goedken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/05d/brian-goedken-38890_bible_on-the-human-soul-while-the-bible-offers_109608.jpg)
