Quotes About Imminence

To Mr. Casaubon now, it was as if he suddenly found himself on the dark river-brink and heard the plash of the oncoming oar, not discerning the forms, but expecting the summons.

Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But it keeps not ending." "So far, so good.

It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy.

The future is a split second away.

See you soon (but not soon enough).

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

The passion for prophesying then seizes everyone; skeptics and fanatics alike delight in the idea of disaster and give themselves up in concert to the pleasure of having foreseen and trumpeted it abroad. But it is especially the theoreticians of Reaction who exult (tragically, no doubt) over the reality or the imminence of the worst - of the worst that is their raison d'être.

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.

The question is, what color will everything be at the moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?

The question is what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?

The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying? Personally

My toes are going to come," -Mariann The Night Owl

Al final será verdad que el fin del mundo no está tan lejos. En realidad se ha visto venir siempre que ese fin no podía estar muy lejos. Mientras lo esperan, los seres humanos se entretienen celebrando funerales, pequeñas imitaciones del gran final por venir.

So … when will it be the time for the getting on the train?' 'I think … a little bit almost quite very soon, and not long.

Despite the imminence of her death and even though she had no idea how it would happen, she no longer felt afraid. This must be what Catholics understand by the purifying power of confession. Deep down inside her, in the shadowy world of her consciousness, she'd always sensed that her life would come to a terrible end. It must do, if an entity existed that ensured justice was done

So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.

We should live our lives Christ was coming this afternoon!

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.

The man with forty-five minutes to live cannot defend himself.