As soon as he was gone, we opened, "Baucis and Philemon." An elderly couple living in a cottage, they're granted a wish by Jove. They confer in private before Philemon asks, "May one hour take us both away; let neither outlive the other." The wish is granted.
I said, "Simultaneous deaths? Why didn't they wish for eternal happiness instead? What else would anyone wish for?"
"They did wish for that," answered Jamie.
Good-bye and hello, as always.
Roger ZelaznyTags: eternity parting eternal-return greetings
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
HeraclitusTags: life eternity journey impermanence mujo
Then I glanced at the ring on my finger.
The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from?
I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once—and you all went away.
So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light.
You aren’t really there at all. There isn’t anybody but me—Jane—here alone in the dark.
I miss you dreadfully!
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.
Joseph CampbellI can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable…has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe.
T.H. WhiteDoubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: doubt thinking existence reason purpose meaning-of-life philosophy belief nature eternity atheism human-nature miracle sin reflection myth meaning metaphor thoughts blindness blind-faith purpose-of-life resurrection critical-thinking blind intoxication christian-faith christian-miracle critical-thought death-of-reason doubt-is-sin foundation-of-belief origin religious-faith resurrection-of-jesus sinful wasted-life
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
William BlakeTags: eternity
Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: life past future present happiness eternity time religion
On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.
Jean Paul Friedrich RichterTags: eternity time death religion atheism church
« first previous
Page 4 of 25.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.