Aeschylus Quotes

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.

You live you die and death not ends it.

Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return. And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

Everything passes away-suffering,pain, blood, hunger,pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?

We die, and we do not die.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.