Quotes About Eternity

Time is the image of eternity.

Das Leben ist ewig; darin liegt seine Schönheit.

In the resurrection, when we come up looking backward at each other, I shall know you only of all that company.

Il tempo non è abbastanza lungo! [...] Non è abbastanza lungo per una vita che faccia dimenticare le sue notti.»

There is a gap in "world pain" through which the singular falls continually and forever; a body falling in observable space, deprived of the privacy of disappearance; as if privacy, moving relentlessly away, by the very sustaining power of its withdrawal kept the body eternally moving downward, but in one place, and perpetually before the eye.

Only the impossible lasts forever, with time, it is made accessible. Robin's love and mine was always impossible, and loving each other, we no longer love. Yet we love each other like death.

You Know what none of us know until we have died. You were dead in the beginning.

Only the impossible lasts forever; with time, it is made accessible.

Izgleda da su ve?ne samo one ljubavi koje se ne doga?aju.

I bez stvarnog zna?aja nam je što je vasiona beskraj i krug, jer mi verujemo da smo u njenom centru. I sa svim svojim napretkom i znanjima, mi se u sebi nismo promakli od tog privida, te svoje jedne ta?kice u središtu plavog prostora. Jer bilo šta da uradimo, bilo gde da stignemo, uvek smo u središtu, uvek smo sebi u središtu, svagda nam se horizonti savijaju u krug. Kad bismo bar videli da je taj krug nama jedino vidna i znana - ve?nost. Ve?nost kojoj ne pripadamo.

Veruj, istraj. Užasno je ako je ovaj svet ve?an, nikakav je naš život ako ga gledaš kakav jeste, ako pristaneš na njegovu realnost, ako ne veruješ u nemogu?e! Sanjaj, sine! Ne budi se!

All of this occurs in the past, except this sentence.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

It is like a kingdom. It is the same old thing, just a different name, to keep the peasants in line. A system of the higher ups against the little people. They believe that there is only their God, and that all the others are evil. That there is only one way to be good, and that is the way they teach. And if you do not follow their instructions you will be damned for eternity.

If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?

24 En verdad, en verdad les digo, que quien escucha mi palabra, y cree a aquel que me ha enviado, tiene la vida eterna, y no incurre en sentencia de condenación, sino que ha pasado ya de muerto a vida.

51 Yo soy el pan vivo, que he descendido del cielo. 52 Quien comiere de este pan, vivirá eternamente: y el pan que yo daré, es mi misma carne, la cual daré yo para la vida del mundo. 53

Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.

We know our land was here before we came and that it will be here long after we are gone. With our wine, we have survived wars, the Revolution and phylloxera. Each harvest renews promises made in the spring. We live with the continuing cycle. This gives us a taste of eternity.

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

I want to experience everything heaven offers, but most of all, I want to hear those never-ending songs again.

We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord" (2 Corinthians