Quotes About Eternity

Joy is play's intention. When this intention is actually realized, in joyful play, the time structure of the playful universe takes on a very specific quality—namely, it becomes eternity. This is probably true of all experiences of intense joy, even when they are not enveloped in the separate reality of play. This is the final insight of Nietzsche's Zarathustra in the midnight song: "All joy wills eternity—wills deep, deep eternity!"33

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.

Time was wiggy in so much dark.

Focus on is for a moment. The nature of is still "is" even if nothing exists. If everything is destroyed, is remains. How can is go anywhere? There is nowhere to go. The nature of is is Nothing. The nature of is is absolute. If you identify with is then nothing can come or go. There is nothing that needs to be or not be.

God would go to war against

the worst events of human history that we cannot understand, even hell itself, are only compost in God's wonderful eternal plan. Out of the greatest evil, the death of Jesus, came the greatest good.

What shall I say to you who will one day hear this last act for yourselves? You will—because whatever else shall pass away, this must remain.

There's a sea—a great sea—I love . . . It's where the Gods go to bathe.' 'What Gods?' 'The old ones. Before they died.' 'Gods don't die.' 'Yes, they do.

Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?

lus mór na coille.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

At some point, for all eternity, there will be no more unmerited suffering: this present darkness, "the age of evil", will eventually be remembered as a brief flicker at the beginning of human history. Every evil done by the wicked to the innocent will have been avenged, and every tear will have been wiped away

It's kind of like a Zen thing. Like playing the piano, or being a centipede in Heaven.

The game is never over; there's no finish line this side of heat death.

Nothing's immortal on a road trip of a billion years. The universe runs down in stop-motion around you, your backups' backups' backups need backups. Not even the error-correcting replication strategies cadged from biology can keep the mutations at bay forever. It was true for us meatsicles cycling through mayfly moments every thousand years; it was just as true for the hardware.

TO HIMSELF EVERYONE IS IMMORTAL; HE MAY KNOW THAT HE IS GOING TO DIE, BUT HE CAN NEVER KNOW THAT HE IS DEAD. —

The contract 'twixt Hannah, God and me,Was not for one or twenty years, but for eternity.

Le monde a l'envers, zise Gogu Apostolescu. Dar st? a?a de un milion de ani.

?nsan?n varla?ma hamlesinden ebedilik hayali ve ne?esi do?ar. Bu özleyi? bütün cesaretini imkandan almaktad?r. ?nsan mümkün olmayan ?eyi istemek için kendini yormaz ve paralamaz.

Death is only the beginning

When you die, there is nothing. [...] to describe it in any way is to give it form.

FOR THE SHORTEST month, drab February can last for ever.

HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.