“For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?” IfsLifeDoeEndsHandsLastsTimeFallChangeSleepAbilityDestructionEternityOccasionsMidstDesirableExtinctionFatigueLast DayAbodeDeep Sleep Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?” IfsDreamJoyWinningWeekMinutesSweetGainsDestructionEternityBreathsSellsToysCrownsFleetingBeggarGrapesVinesMirth Author:William Shakespeare
“The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.” ThinkingMenIdeasTimeDiesDestructionEternityMortalsImmortalThinkerDemise Book:A Preface to Morals Source: A Preface to Morals
“If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.” IfsIdeasRealEndsMatterMomentsFormLawDeathSimpleAnimalExistencePrinciplesDyingDestructionEternityTransformationDenyCeasePassagesBeing RealAnnihilationTransmutation Author:Marquis de Sade
“Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Take off your clothes. Forget yourself. Make love. Self-destruction is the only way to peace.” WaySelfForgetEnvironmentSelf LoveClothesDestructionEternityMaking LoveOur EnvironmentForget YouSelf Destruction Author:Yayoi Kusama
“Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction.” WorldSoulSinMinutesThis WorldDestructionEternitySavingDoomedSaving Souls Author:Richard Wurmbrand
“It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!” MenWellsSoulDesireFallHeavenSecretHorrorDestructionEternityLongingImmortalityDivinityDreadInwardPlatoShrinksHereafter Author:Joseph Addison
“No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity.” HeartEarthHumanityTechnologyAmountComputerRacismDestructionEternityEnvironmentalWarfareContinuationChange Of HeartNanotechnologyBiotechnologyFuture Of HumanityEnvironmental Destruction Author:Jack Kornfield