Quotes About Eternity

And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well. (#95)

There is no day nor night, nor form nor colour, and never, never a word. (#67)

Cuando mi voz calle con la muerte, mi corazón te seguirá hablando".

In life the one becomes many. In death the many become one.

Is it true, is it true, that your love travelled alone through ages and worlds in search of me?

The night kisses the fading day whispering to his ear, "I am death, your mother. I am to give you fresh birth.

On death the many become one, in life the one becomes many.

When Death comes and whispers to me, "Your days are ended," let me say to him, "I have lived in love and not in mere time." He will ask, "Will your songs remain?" I shall say, "I know not, but this I know, that often when I sang I found my eternity.

Of course, I'm dying to be about for ever so long. I'll ask the King to find me the polar star. I must have seen it often, but I don't know exactly which it is.

God never under any conditions binds His creation with fetters; He awakens it through constant changes to ever new life.

This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life. This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new... Thy infinite gifts come to me only on those very small hand of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.

Wherever our heart touches the One, in the small or the big, it finds the touch of the infinite.

In this world's endless time and boundless space One may be born at last to match my sovereign grace.

When death comes and whispers to me 'Thy days are ended.' let me say to him, 'I have lived in love and not in mere time.' He will ask 'Will thy songs remain?' I shall say 'I know not, but this I know that often when I sang I found my eternity.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise

IF one had to fill in, little by little, the gap between day and night, it would take an eternity to do it. But the sun rises and the darkness is dispelled—a moment is sufficient to overcome an infinite distance.

I shall die again and again to know that life is inexhaustible.

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

social system has been perfected for all time to come by our ancestors, who had the superhuman vision of all eternity and supernatural power for making infinite provision for future ages.

Beauty is sweet to us, because she dances to the same fleeting tune with our lives. Knowledge is precious to us, because we shall never have time to complete it. All is done and finished in the eternal Heaven. But earth's flowers of illusion are kept eternally fresh by death.

Even so, in death the same unknown will appear as ever known to me. And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well. The child cries out when from the right breast the mother takes it away, in the very next moment to find in the left one its consolation.

How I have noiselessly floated down the stream of Time, Skipping from life to life, Changing from form to form. In the night, in the morning, All I received, I gave away In ever new gifts, In ever new songs. - Poem 8

We must know with absolute certainty that essentially we are spirit.

Let only that little be left of me whereby I may name thee my all.