A Quote by Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.

Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

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Consoles Eternity Life Shortness Shortness Of Life Thought

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Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes
French - Statesman
December 6, 1721 - April 22, 1794

It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

Kate DiCamillo

Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use is it to lean upon that which cannot give support?

Gerard Majella

Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.

Joseph Campbell

Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do yon mean that they shall be for you?

Alexander MacLaren

If I had intended for 'Minecraft' to end up on consoles, I wouldn't have developed the game in Java. The decision to port the game to consoles came from a combination of player requests, a desire to play around with the brand on different platforms, and some interesting business deals.

Markus Persson

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

Winston Churchill

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

Pliny the Elder

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

William Shakespeare

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Khalil Gibran

Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.