Afterlife Quote by Titus Lucretius Carus

““There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone ... Mind cannot arise alone without body, or apart from sinews and blood ... You must admit, therefore, that when then body has perished, there is an end also of the spirit diffused through it. It is surely crazy to couple a mortal object with an eternal...””

Titus Lucretius Carus

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“Every person tries to flee himself—yet despite ourselves, we remain attached to this self which we hate.”

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“Mortal, what hast thou of such grave concern That thou indulgest in too sickly plaints? Why this bemoaning and beweeping death? For if thy…

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“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be…

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“Another fallacy comes creeping in whose errors you should be meticulous in trying to avoid. Don't think our eyes, our bright and shining eyes,…

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“E tenebris tantis tam clarum extollere lumen qui primus potuisti inlustrans commoda vitae, te sequor, o Graiae gentis decus, inque tuis nunc ficta pedum…

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“That is especially true, since our whole life is struggling in the dark. For just as children in the dead of night tremble and…

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“Though you outlive as many generations as you will, Nevertheless, Eternal Death is waiting for you still. It is no shorter, that eternity that…

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“In the same way now, since this reasoning seems generally too bitter for those men who have not tried it and the common crowd…

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“So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge.”

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“The whole of life but labours in the dark. For just as children tremble and fear all In the viewless dark, so even we…

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“Nothing can dwindle to nothing, as Nature restores one thing from the stuff of another, nor does she allow a birth, without a corresponding…

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