Quotes About Eternity

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.

The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.

Coach's voice will never leave my head as long as I live.

Films come and go. Families stay.

Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.

We are each of us composed of atoms, but equally, we are composed by time.

One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.

The bonds of love are what connect us to the other side.

When I look up and see a star, I know my mom is there. She's with me all the time. It's a powerful connection.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Man was made to be immortal; else, he could not survive being the fool he is.

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

I suspect that perfect happiness is not possible for me. I suppose if I was ever selected for eternal life - the moment I was informed - that would bring me the closest.

The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

In many ways, I think about the possibility that there could still be a Yes in 100 or 200 years from now, just like a live symphony orchestra.

Paul is synonymous with the ocean.

It's possible to gather light that's older than our solar system.