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Oblivion6 quotes
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten. — Ecclesiastes 9:5 · 931 BCNo man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957Hell is more bearable than nothingness. — Philip James Bailey · 1839The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence. — Psalm 115:17 · 450 BCDeath is, you see, one or the other of two things: either to be dead is to be non-existent, as it were, and a dead person has no awareness of anything at all; or else, as we are told, the soul undergoes some sort of transformation, or exchanging of this present world for another. — Socrates · 399 BCThen shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. — Ecclesiastes 12:7 · 931 BC
Death5 quotes
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten. — Ecclesiastes 9:5 · 931 BCNo man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence. — Psalm 115:17 · 450 BCDeath is, you see, one or the other of two things: either to be dead is to be non-existent, as it were, and a dead person has no awareness of anything at all; or else, as we are told, the soul undergoes some sort of transformation, or exchanging of this present world for another. — Socrates · 399 BCThen shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. — Ecclesiastes 12:7 · 931 BC
The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence. — Psalm 115:17 · 450 BCDeath is, you see, one or the other of two things: either to be dead is to be non-existent, as it were, and a dead person has no awareness of anything at all; or else, as we are told, the soul undergoes some sort of transformation, or exchanging of this present world for another. — Socrates · 399 BC
No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957
No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957
Hell1 quote
Hell is more bearable than nothingness. — Philip James Bailey · 1839
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten. — Ecclesiastes 9:5 · 931 BC
Death is, you see, one or the other of two things: either to be dead is to be non-existent, as it were, and a dead person has no awareness of anything at all; or else, as we are told, the soul undergoes some sort of transformation, or exchanging of this present world for another. — Socrates · 399 BC
The soul1 quote
Death is, you see, one or the other of two things: either to be dead is to be non-existent, as it were, and a dead person has no awareness of anything at all; or else, as we are told, the soul undergoes some sort of transformation, or exchanging of this present world for another. — Socrates · 399 BC