Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Life is brief between two nothingnesses, yet hope and love survive even death.
In plain terms
We are stuck between two empty eternities but love helps us.
What can you take from it?
Find hope in love despite life's emptiness.

Where it applies

  • grief
  • existential crisis

Putting it to work

  • focus on love
  • accept mortality

Questions to consider

  • Where do you find meaning?
  • Does hope survive loss?

Another view

Some deny the void between eternities entirely.

More from Robert G. Ingersoll

  1. These heroes are dead. They died for liberty-they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless,…

    Permalink to quote #74
  2. Is there beyond the silent night An endless day? Is death a door that leads to light? We cannot say.

    Permalink to quote #76
  3. Now, gentlemen, what is blasphemy? Of course nobody knows what it is, unless he takes into consideration where he is. What is blasphemy in one country would be…

    Permalink to quote #73

Related quotes

  1. Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear …

    Nikos KazantzakisNikos Kazantzakis quote #104
  2. I had fun, but I didn't really have anyone i particularly loved except for loving friends. But I have a certain amount of faith that it will come.

    Edie SedgwickEdie Sedgwick quote #1
  3. Devouring Famine, Plague, and War, Each able to undo mankind, Death's servile emissaries are; Nor to these alone confined, He hath at will More quaint and subt…

    James ShirleyJames Shirley quote #1