Finiteness Quotes

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Giannis Delimitsos
“Only what is ephemeral holds value. Everything eternal is worthless.”
Giannis Delimitsos

Rabindranath Tagore
“Pain, which is the feeling of our finiteness, is not a fixture in our life. It is not an end in itself, as joy is. To meet with it is to know that it has no part in the true permanence of creation.”
Rabindranath Tagore, Sadhana

Dejan Stojanovic
“THE BEING

Being (God) is finite.
Only a finite being can exist.
That which exists must be finite.
That which does not exist is “infinite” potential.
The potential is potential existence.
That which may exist already exists in a different form.
The infinite potential is the ability of the Being always to be new.
Nothingness exists in the form of nonexistence.
Existence of nonexistence exists.
Infinity of the finite is the secret of existence.
The very finiteness of God leads to infinity.
The finiteness of God is absolute.
(The Finiteness of God is Zero.)
The finitude of God hides infinity (potential).”
Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

Sigrid Nunez
Time passing was life passing, I thought. It was life that flowed swiftly along in one direction and could not be seized or stopped. And this was something that weighed on grown-ups, an inexorable force that they feared.”
Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables