“The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.” DoeStillsEndsPainLostHellFireEternalEternity Author:Thomas Aquinas
“Ye who amid this feverish world would wear A body free of pain, of cares a mind, Fly the rank city, shun its turbid air; Breathe not the chaos of eternal smoke And volatile corruption, from the dead, The dying, sickening, and the living world Exhal'd, to sully heaven's transparent dome With dim mortality.” WorldMindBodyCarePainHeavenCitiesAirDyingEternalChaosCorruptionBreatheSmokeMortalityTransparentDomes Book:The Poems of Armstrong and Johnson Source: The Poems of Armstrong and Johnson
“Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.” PainStruggleSunEternalVainBlissFoolishness Author:Khalil Gibran
“I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.” FeelsPainSufferingOrderEternalShots Author:Dmitri Shostakovich
“We must learn to recognize nature's truths even though we don't understand them, for some of those truths may still be beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend. What we need is a compound prescription of humility, imagination, devotion to the truth and, above all, confidence in the eternal wisdom of nature.” NeedsMindHumansMayStillsPainImaginationAbilityHumilityEternalDevotionTherapyInjuryHuman MindCompoundsPrescriptions Author:John E. Sarno
“I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!” FeelsPainForeverTearsEternalEarsAll TimeImmortalityReincarnationThunder Author:Lord Byron
“We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease with no humiliation, a life of security with no fear, a life of richness with no poverty, a life of joy with no pain, a life of perfection with no flaws. Allah is testing us in this world with a life that will end in death, a life of pride that is accompanied by humiliation and degradation, a life that is tainted by fear, where joy and ease are mixed with sorrow and pain.” KnowsWorldShouldEndsPainJoyPovertySecurityThis WorldPrideSorrowEternalPerfectionEaseFlawsHumiliationTestingNo FearRichnessEternal LifeDegradationNo PainTainted Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
“... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain things occur, if certain lines meet, an angle is born. You cannot fail. It's not going to fail; it is eternal. I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total. Thus, I'm able to avoid or manipulate or process pain.” IfsHumansAblePainCertainFoundProcessBornLinesHuman BeingsFailingEternalRelationMathematicsSymbolsAngleManipulateGeometryHuman Relations Author:Louise Bourgeois
“We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.” PainEternalIllusionParabola Author:Maynard James Keenan
“For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.” IfsFirstsSaidChristianPainLyingHateEvilImaginationReligiousHellDoubtHorrorEternalUnderstoodFirst TimeI HateDepthHatedFlamesHeightNo DoubtOrthodoxCreedsDogmaHate YouNo FearSermonsMy ImaginationI Hate You Author:Robert Green Ingersoll