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Quotes About Eternal

All perishes, all decays, all is born again.
~ Leonid Andreyev
He who fights on a foreign soil another man's war Not for his family or his country's honor And, when he lies dying, hit by a deadly blow From an Angry firearm But cannot say, "Oh! My beloved country Here is the life you gave me, I come back to you" Dies twice, reduced to eternal wretchedness.
~ Leopardi
All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.
~ Leopold von Ranke
Sacred time is always in the Present.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
He had only seen and heard the world as it always was: no boundaries, only transitions through all distances and time.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation.
~ Leslie Stephen
She ruminated, again, on the eternal return, the widening gyre, that seemed to govern human history. There is a tide in the affairs of men. A slack tide, that heaves up wrack and slime and rotting seaweed and deposits them on the sand, like a cat leaving the corpse of a rat on your doorstep. Then it slinks back in search of more.
~ Lev Grossman
Hate isn't like love, it doesn't end. It goes on forever. You can never get to the bottom of it. And it's so pure, so unconditional!
~ Lev Grossman
on earth "everything has a beginning and nothing has an end.
~ Lev Shestov
God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
~ lewis c s vi
Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
~ lewis c s vii
Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope -- something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality.
~ lewis c s viii
Always winter but never Christmas.
~ lewis c s viii
That idea of time cannot be located in space, though it has endless spatial manifestations, both physical and symbolic.
~ Lewis Mumford
Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.
~ Jessye Norman
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
~ John Randolph
Water never disappears forever. It flows back into the sea, becomes rain, forms a river, fills a pond, or cascades down a mountain. In one way or another, it always returns. —"On the Way of Water," from the journal of Hayden Stone
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Dart a very fine reed into the victim's heart. He will be left with a lethal stupefaction, but will not die of it. Dart a very fine glance into the eye of the torturer. He will be left with eternal remorse, without even remembering it.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Cosmopolitan evolutionism is an illusion, and it is everywhere being exposed as such. There is no solution to Foreignness. It is eternal - and radical. It is not a matter of wanting it to be that way. It simply is so.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Et qui refuserait au Phénix une bûche Pour le naïf espoir de renaître avec lui ? (Phénixologie)
~ Jean Cocteau
Le temps des hommes est de l'éternité pliée
~ Jean Cocteau
This profound interest which she brings to my eternal essence and her total indifference to all that can happen to me in this life—and then this curious affectation, at once charming and pedantic—and this way of suppressing from the very outset all the mechanical formulas of politeness, friendship, all that makes relationships between people easier, forever obliging her partners to invent a rôle.
~ Jean Paul Sartre