Quotes About Transcendence

She said her life was completed," Trina said. "That's something that none of us will ever experience. Even if we're gleaned someday, it won't be the same, because we weren't born mortal. From this moment on, no one will ever know what it feels like to be complete.

What do I see when I close my eyes? I see beyond darkness, and it is immeasurably grand both above me and below.

Love remained mortal, while we became eternal.

2042 is the year we conquered death, and also the year we stopped counting. Sure, we still numbered years for a few more decades, but at the moment of the immortality, passing time ceased to matter.

What must it have been like to believe in something greater than oneself? To accept imperfection and look to a rising vision of all we could never be? It must have been comforting.

Do you come from Heaven or rise from the abyss, Beauty?

Romanticism is a grace, celestial or infernal, that bestows us eternal stigmata.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, need not even exist.

Au-dessus des étangs, au-dessus des vallées, Des montagnes, des bois, des nuages, des mers, Par delà le soleil, par delà les éthers, Par delà les confins des sphères étoilées

In certain almost supernatural states of mind, the profundity of life is revealed in its entirety in the spectacle, common as it may be, that we have before our eyes. It becomes the symbol of it.

Music pierces the sky.

Hay que ser sublime sin interrupción

Derrière les ennuis et les vastes chagrins Qui chargent de leur poids l'existence brumeuse, Heureux celui qui peut d'une aile vigoureuse S'élancer vers les champs lumineux et sereins

You must be drunk always. That is everything: the only question. Not to feel the horrible burden of Time that crushes your shoulders and bends you earthward, you must be drunk without respite. But drunk on what? On wine, on poetry, on virtue — take your pick. But be drunk.

Toute forme créée, même par l'homme, est immortelle. Car la forme est indépendante de la matière, et ce ne sont pas les molécules qui constituent la forme.

La poésie est ce qui existe de plus réel, c'est ce qui est complètement vrai dans un autre monde .

Ey ç??, düÅŸerken al?p götürür müsün beni?

Para no ser esclavos y mártires del Tiempo, embriagaos, embriagaos sin cesar. De vino, de poesía o de virtud; de lo que queráis.

Tu m'as donné ta boue et j'en ai fait de l'or

Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.

I hope that death contains less than this.

Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.

and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.

having been born into this strange life we must accept the wasted gamble of our days and take some satisfaction in the plea sure of leaving it all behind. cry