Quote of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Death is a commingling of eternity...
Biography - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
German writer and statesman.
Born: 1749 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1749 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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Quotes about death:
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
Quotes about time:
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Quotes about eternity:
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
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