Comparison Quote by John Calvin

The more we live the more we forget.

— Anonymous

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the distant past.…

— Haruki Murakami

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

— Guy de Maupassant

It is only as we focus our thoughts on heaven that we will correctly interpret life on earth.

— Paul P. Enns

It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

— Henry David Thoreau

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

— Wilkie Collins

Lukewarm people think about life on earth much more often than eternity in heaven.

— Francis Chan

“Our minds must fit the eternal patterns of heaven, not the momentary aberrations of earth”

— Chris Tiegreen

This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“— What were you thinking about, child? — I was thinking of heaven. — It’s unnecessary for you to think of heaven: there’s already…

— Comte de Lautréamont