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By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

— Robert Schumann

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

— Samuel Johnson

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

— Adam Clarke

Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.

— Swami Sivananda

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

— Horace

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.

— Emile Durkheim

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

— Alexandre Dumas

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

— George A. Smith

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

— Michel de Montaigne

✗Opposing Perspectives

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

— Pope Benedict XVI