“You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.” PainTimeLeftConsciousnessSeaEternityBoundariesYou Left Me Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“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
“What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade! A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade! A stream that silently but swiftly glides To meet eternity's immeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy? A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.” LifeArtPainJoyLostTearsFlowerLaborEmptyEternityBreathsCourtEaseStreamsShadeFadesTidesWormsFleetingUndonePuffVaporShort Lived Author:Alexander Brome
“Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory, since pain, when pain has passed, is nothing. Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity, conducting us to the Incomprehensible. In its progress there is a ripening power, and it ripens us the more, and the more powerfully, when we duly estimate it. Listen to its voice, do not waste it, but regard it as the highest finite good, in which all finite things are resolved.” LifeHumansImportantPainVoicePleasureProgressWasteHighestEternityRegardImportant ThingsTrackHuman LifeWheelsFiniteDepartureConductingRipening Author:Alexander von Humboldt
“I don't believe in hell. The idea that a supreme being would make hell is ridiculous. An eternity of pain that results in no learning, reformation or rebirth is a nauseating idea. It's one of the reasons I left Christianity. I simply could not accept that version of God.” BelieveIdeasReasonPainLeftResultsAcceptingChristianityHellEternityDon't BelieveRidiculousSupremeVersionsRebirthReformationSupreme Being Author:Anne Rice