Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.
How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?
God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.
Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.
No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.
Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
Life doesn't retreat.
I really appreciated his theme of life evolving from one race of gods to another, with one power having to give way to another, as Hyperion must.