
“What I saw was the hoax: Immortals questioning mortality when they should have asked eternity.”
"She's Dead?"
Shades of the World (1985)
Source: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 9, “Otherspace” Section 5 (p. 138)
“What I saw was the hoax: Immortals questioning mortality when they should have asked eternity.”
"She's Dead?"
Shades of the World (1985)
Variant: Ask yourself three questions and you will know who you are. Ask 'What do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important - ask what do you love?
Source: The Bronze Horseman (2001)
“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.”
Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio.
XI, 14
Confessions (c. 397)
"On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
“In 2002, if you asked me to make a wish? I simply would've wished that my music would be a hit.”
I'm Supposed to Die Tonight
Song lyrics, The Massacre (2005)
“I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.”