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Quotes About Transcendence

Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Eternity! How know we but we stand On the precipitous and crumbling verge Of Time e'en now, Eternity below?
~ Abraham Coles
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
~ Andre Malraux
My bits of time play with eternity.
~ Antonio Porchia
Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
~ Ben Okri
Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
~ Carson McCullers
It feels like we've stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.
~ David Levithan
The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
~ Walter Savage Landor
For the Atma there is no time and there is no form. It is beyond time and beyond form.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.
~ Simone Weil
Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds, Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds, This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.
~ Stephen Spender
The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.
~ Ken Kesey
Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped.
~ Ken Wilber
In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The Mysterious Pass, which opens beyond space and time, is inconceivable by means of discursive thought and has, by definition, no fixed position.
~ Monica Esposito
Pure awareness transcends thinking. It allows you to step outside the chattering negative self-talk and your reactive impulses and emotions. It allows you to look at the world once again with open eyes. And when you do so, a sense of wonder and quiet contentment begins to reappear in your life.
~ Mark Williams
I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. It's probably not even real.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Il mio oblio è Hailey. Per un istante. E per sempre. Al di là del tempo. Perché ora siamo fuori dal tempo. Siamo contemporaneamente.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
I traveled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.
~ Markus Zusak
I wish I could hold up that knife and tear open the world. I'd slice it open and climb through to the next one.
~ Markus Zusak