Quotes About Eternity

Time is many things, her father told her. Time is a circle, and time is a great turning gear that cannot be stopped, and time is a river that carries away what you love.

Immortals must always give humans one thing! Either fear and terror! Or beauty!!

Once your heart and mind are shattered, eternity's not so scary.

Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.

A lark, caught in a hunter's net Sang sweeter then than ever, As if the falling melody Might wing and net dissever At dusk the hunter took his prey, The lark his freedom never. All birds and men are sure to die But songs may live forever.

All birds and men are sure to die but songs may live forever.

Human beings have the capacity to rise above mundane circumstances and touch the eternal.

A woman would always prefer to be remembered than forgotten.

Los seres humanos tenemos la capacidad de sobreponernos a las circunstancias cotidianas y acercarnos a lo eterno.

Perhaps we've done enough." Sylvie was shocked. Her mother had never talked this way. Isabelle noticed her reaction and said defensively: "Even God rested on the seventh day, after he made the world." "Our work isn't finished." "Perhaps it never will be, until the Last Trump.

People were born and died, cities could rise and fall, wars began and ended, but Kingsbridge Cathedral would last until the Day of Judgement.

In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum.

La tormenta que había estallado en su corazón amainó ligeramente. La penumbra y el frescor del interior, entre los imponentes muros de piedra, le hicieron sentir la trascendencia de la eternidad. Los problemas terrenales eran temporales, incluso los peores: ese era el mensaje que transmitía el templo a sus visitantes. El corazón volvió a latirle con normalidad.

Nada es perdurable, salvo el cambio.

In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum." In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Aldred felt he could spend his life trying to comprehend that mystery.

When I die pin me up against the sky.

And like: "Why should one want to wake up dead anyway?" If the glorious birth-to-death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have . . . if our grand and exhilarating Fight of Life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway, compared to the eons of rounds before and after—then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?

As Wittgenstein said, "If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Thus, to see all memory as present experience is to collapse the boundaries of this present moment, to free it of illusory limits, to deliver it from the opposites of past vs. future. It becomes obvious that there is nothing behind you in time nor before you in time. You thus have nowhere to stand but in the timeless present, and thus nowhere to stand but in eternity.

As my Dzogchen teacher said, "Come back when you can show me something that does not have a beginning in time.

continuously horrific hell permeated by a constantly perfect heaven.

Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.

The power of the world always works in circles.

Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.