Blaise Pascal

Eternity of Nothing
Our imagination is powerfully magnifies time, by continual reflections upon it, and so diminishes eternity… For want of reflection, that we make a nothing of eternity and an eternity of nothing

An incomprehensible enchantment
Nothing is so Important to man as his own state, nothing is so formidable to him as eternity; and thus it is not natural that there should be men indifferent to the loss of their existence, and to perils of everlasting suffering. They are quite different with regard to other things . They are afraid of mere trifles; they foresee them; they feel them. And this same man who spends so many days and nights in rage and despair at the loss of an office, or for some imaginary insult to his honor, is the very one who knows without anxiety and without emotion that he will lose all by death. It is a monstrous thing to see in the same heart and at the same time this sensibility to trifles and this strange insensibility to the greatest objects. It is an incomprehensible enchantment.