Quotes About Finitude

La postérité n'a jamais rendu l'étreinte des tombes moins dure. Elle a juste le mérite de modérer notre peur de la mort puisqu'il n'y a pas de thérapie mieux appropriée à notre inexorable finitude que l'illusion d'une belle éternité. .. Cependant, il en existe une qui me tient à cÅ"ur : la mémoire d'une nation éclairée. c'est la seule postérité qui me fasse rêver.

La postérité n'a jamais rendu l'étreinte des tombes moins dure. Elle a juste le mérite de modérer notre peur de la mort puisqu'il n'y a pas de thérapie mieux appropriée à notre inexorable finitude que l'illusion d'une belle éternité.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

La vita è soltanto il vestibolo e la prefazione della morte. Nascere non è altro che cominciare a morire. Le cose serie cominciano con la morte. Vivivamo poco tempo e saremo morti per sempre.

C'était une longue étreinte, déchirante de tendresse et de douleur, le symbole, pour tous ceux qui en étaient les témoins, de ce que la condition humaine recèle de plus tragique: l'amour à l'épreuve de l'ultime séparation. L'éternité du sentiment et la finitude des corps.

In 4.5 billion years there will arrive the demise of your phenomenology and your utopian politics, and there'll be no one there to toll the death knell or hear it.

To be immortal and then die.

It's over. Absolutely, completely, eternally over

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.

The earth is mostly just a boneyard.

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

To really appreciate life you got to know you're going to die.

With you inside me comes the knowledge of my death.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death." - Paul Baumer

The self must be destroyed, brought down to nothing, in order for self-transcendence to begin. Then the self can begin to relate itself to powers beyond itself. It has to thrash around in its finitude, it has to die, in order to question that finitude, in order to see beyond it. To what? Kierkegaard answers: to infinitude, to absolute transcendence, the the Ultimate Power of Creation which made finite creatures.

Sex is of the body, and the body is of death.

Excreting is the curse that threatens madness because it shows man his abject finitude, his physicalness, the likely unreality of his hopes and dreams.

Politicians are either there or here or totally at home. Their finitude is more than sufficient unto itself. I don't mean to imply that I'm any better than they which does not mean that they are any better than I. Which doesn't mean anything at all.

You are a human being. And that's and unstable condition that ends badly for all of us.

There's difference between being dead and dying. We're all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it.

nuestro universo desaparecerá tan abruptamente como, probablemente, empezó.

Deux choses sont infinies : l'Univers et la bêtise humaine. Mais, en ce qui concerne l'Univers, je n'en ai pas encore acquis la certitude absolue.

We sometimes do not appreciate the magnitude of the problem here. How could the eternal Word of the eternal Father take on limits? How can infinitude and finitude marry? The doctrine of the Incarnation proclaims frankly and without embarrassment the most stupendous miracle that can be imagined. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, hail the Incarnate Deity.