Oh, eternity, eternity! forever and forever! Oh the insufferable pangs of hell!” Millions of millions of years would bring me no nearer to the end of my torments than one poor hour. Victor de Riqueti, Marquis de Mirabeau (October 5, 1715, Pertuis – July 13, 1789, Argenteuil was a French economist of the Physiocratic school) : “Give me laudanum that I may not think of eternity.”įrancis Newport (1st Earl of Bradford, Febru– September 19, 1708): “Oh, that I was to lie a thousand years upon the fire that never is quenched, to purchase the favor of God, and be united to Him again! But it is a fruitless wish. Talleyrand Perigord (1754–1838), achieved distinction as a French statesman and diplomat): “I am suffering the pangs of the damned!” (*ADAPTED FROM: Life’s Choices by John Lawrence, Pages 54-59)
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