Quotes About Eternity

If you were coming in the fall, I'd brush the summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As housewives do a fly. If I could see you in a year, I'd wind the months in balls, And put them each in separate drawers, Until their time befalls. If only centuries delayed, I'd count them on my hand, Subtracting till my fingers dropped Into Van Diemen's land. If certain, when this life was out, That yours and mine should be, I'd toss it yonder like a rind, And taste eternity.

You left me, sweet, two legacies,— A legacy of love A Heavenly Father would content, Had he the offer of; You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me. —Emily Dickinson

To pile like Thunder to its close, Then crumble grand away, While everything created hid — This would be Poetry: Or Love, — the two coeval came — We both and neither prove, Experience either, and consume — For none see God and live.

You left me, sweet, two legacies, A legacy of love A Heavenly Father would content, Had He the offer of; You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.

But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.

i want to make it official, i want to make it forever

No vivieron felices para siempre, pues nada vive eternamente; pero vivieron tantos años como es natural, y después pasaron juntos a la tierra donde los árboles florecen y dan fruto a un mismo tiempo, y donde las flores de primavera nunca se marchitan.

Vitamins are medicine for not getting sick and going back to Heaven yet.

I think she was too tired to play anymore, she was in a hurry to get to Heaven so she didn't wait, why didn't she wait for me?

How odd; wedded for life, because one of us had died.

You can't be a little bit dead. If you're not in the ground yet, you're one hundred per cent alive.

Whether love last but one brief span of time or for eternity, it is the only creative, inspiring, elevating basis for a new race, a new world.

How do I love thee?" wondered Orion. "Let me see. I love thee passionately and eternally . . . obviously eternally— that goes without saying." Holly blinked sweat from her eyes. "Is he serious?" she called over her shoulder to Foaly. "Oh, absolutely," said the centaur, his voice juddering along with the pod's motion. "If he asks you to look for birthmarks, say no immediately.

There is no such thing as an ending, or a beginning for that matter, everything is middle.

For I am not Eternity, but a human being—a part of the whole, as an hour is part of the day. I must come like the hour, and like the hour must pass!

For I am not everlasting, but a human being, a part of the whole as an hour is a part of the day. Like an hour I must come, and like an hour pass away.

such is Death, a greater change, from what now is, not to what is not, but to what is not now. Shall I then no longer be? Not so; thou wilt be; but something different, of which the World now hath need. For thou too wert born not when thou chosest, but when the World had need of thee.

An easygoing person is probably more accessible to a realization of eternity—the endless flow of life and death—than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

we make promises that start with always and end with forever!

I thought in over a thousand years I'd seen all there was to see.

God is not dead but missing in action, and we are destined to wander again for more millennia than there are undiscovered stars.

The Greeks—who knew everything—knew that immortality without youth was to be feared rather than desired.

Is life much too long for an immortal?

You merely pass the time, making millennia fly by.