“People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.” PeopleThinkingHumansEarthHumanityFunWishBuddhismEndlessAbsurdVanity Author:Frederick Lenz
“I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.” IfsArtNamesWishArgumentEndless Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life
“The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all go. You want to forget who you are and what you are. You wish to be the whole universe, infinite, endless.” WantSelfWholeUniverseWishForgetIgnoranceInfiniteWho You AreBurdenEndlessRelease Author:Frederick Lenz
“Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality.” KnowsMenWayWellsMayRealityLife IsWishMoralStruggleSonTheoryEmptyAnd LoveHungerGravesEndlessBreadOld ManBitternessSecuredDeterioration Book:The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland Source: The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland
“Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.” IfsThinkingDoeStatesSeemsWould BeWishDarkExistenceForeverAtheismEternityPositive AtheismEndlessCeaseRelief Author:Emily Dickinson
“O what their joy and their glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see! crowns for the valiant, for weary ones rest: God shall be all, and in all ever blest. Truly Jerusalem name we that shore, vision of peace that brings hope evermore; wish and fulfillment shall severed be ne'er, nor the thing prayed for come short of the prayer.” JoyNamesWishPeacePrayerVisionGloryBlessedEndlessFulfillmentShoreCrownsWearyJerusalemSabbathValiantEvermore Author:Peter Abelard