What is the Life of this World in Religious Perspective?

Question

Please quote your religious books.

Answer 1

The life of this world is like sea water, the more you drink the thirstier you get, it will never relinquish your thirst until the day you die.

Answer 2

Dear All

Holy Book Quran answers this Question explicitly.

57:20 Know ye (all), that the life of this world is but play and amusement, pomp and mutual boasting and multiplying, (in rivalry) among yourselves, riches and children. Here is a similitude: How rain and the growth which it brings forth, delight (the hearts of) the tillers; soon it withers; thou wilt see it grow yellow; then it becomes dry and crumbles away. But in the Hereafter is a Penalty severe (for the devotees of wrong). And Forgiveness from Allah and (His) Good Pleasure (for the devotees of Allah.. And what is the life of this world, but goods and chattels of deception?

May God Almighty Allah Guide whole of Humnity towards Salvation Aameen.