Quote by David Eagleman

“They, like me, like all of us, had, once upon a time, in a past so far away it seemed like heaven, caught by…

— Orhan Pamuk

“How could none of them comprehend the beauty of a human soul,shining in heaven for eternity? Where it would be whole again, as they…

— Carolyn Turgeon

“For ages they had been without lives of their own. The whole of their being was open to the world and nothing divided them…

— Thomas Ligotti

“They believed that this world was fallen but that restitution would be provided elsewhere, in an afterlife. I believed that this world was fallen…

— James Wood

“I think of the presence and of the habits of mortals in this so fluid stream, and reflect that I was among them, striving…

— Paul Valéry

“However, if they believed the promise of everlasting bliss in the afterlife, they may well have viewed their lives as far more meaningful and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past and go into the never-ending future, waiting…

— Jack Kerouac

“For at that time everything which was not myself, the earth and the creatures upon it, seemed to me more precious, more important, endowed…

— Marcel Proust

“We were born from their dreams, their fears and imaginations. We are the product of their hearts and minds. Without a soul we are…

— Julie Kagawa

“Once again, without explaining anything, they understood that they must leave. Go away before this world woke up and continued with a life from…

— Andreï Makine

“Still more. When I was three, and four, and five years of age, I was not yet I. I was a mere becoming, a…

— Jack London

“None of them understand... they can't see the enormity of time the way I can, the way it swallows all our striving... they want…

— Dianne Sylvan