Quotes About Eternity

Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.

There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all: And where it cometh, all things are And it cometh everywhere.

I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty.

Atom from atom yawns as far As moon from earth, or star from star.

There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.

A day is a miniature eternity.

See how the masses of men worry themselves into nameless graves, while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

Este momento es tan bueno como cualquier momento de la eternidad

In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world.

Time like space, is part of the permanent context of life. Time does not pass, we pass.

Clouded and shrouded there doth sit The Infinite embosomed in a man.

True love transcends the unworthy object, and dwells and broods on the eternal, and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid of so much earth, and feels its independency the surer.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God.

Oh, what have I to do with time?

Sweet is death forevermore.

You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.

Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something is to become one with God."—Gandhi

you are ever again the wave     sweeping through all things     RAINER MARIA RILKE, BOOK OF HOURS

At the moment of death, if we let go lightly, we go out into the light, toward the One, toward God. The only thing that died, after all, was another set of thoughts of who we were this time around.

You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

Rumi, the Persian mystic: "I died as stone, and rose again as plant. I died as plant, and became an animal. I died as animal, and was born a man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more shall I die as man, to soar with the angels. But even from angelhood, I must pass on. For all is change, except the face of God.

He lit the night he brought with the fire that puts out the planets when time ends.

She had lost her heart the moment she set eyes on him: it was this prince she had always dreamed of and waited for. She knew him from long ago, from countless lives before. They had belonged together since time began.