Quotes About Eternity

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in store; The absent friends remembered be, in all that's sung or said, And Love immortal consecrate the memory of the dead.

Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now But God doesn't change Men do though

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do, though.' 'What difference does that make?' 'All the difference in the world.

God, if I worship Thee in fear of hell, burn me in hell. And if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not Thine everlasting Beauty.

There seems to be plenty of it,' was all I would answer, when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time.

The only truly consistent are the dead.

He had discovered Time and Death and God.

There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality.

Dieu: Quelque chose qui reste et qui ne trompe pas.

He wished to ignore all but here and now, to be as though he had only just entered the world and were destined to be eternal. Bus his memory survived, even though he never deliberately made use of it; and though the things which had been Isabels were destoryed, he could not guard against chance reminders. Chance had found many gaps in his defenses this morning.

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do, though.' 'What difference does that make?' 'All the difference in the world.

Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep –

But God doesn't change." "Men do, though." "What difference does that make?" "All the difference in the world

And as on Tullia's tomb one lamp burned clear, Unchanged for fifteen hundred year...' He repeated the lines to himself, and was desolated to think of all the murdered past.

of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.

There seems to be plenty of it," was all I would answer, when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time.

LENINA felt herself entitled, after this day of queerness and horror, to a complete and absolute holiday. As soon as they got back to the rest-house, she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity. It would be eighteen hours at the least before she was in time again.

He held out his right hand in the moonlight. From the cut on his wrist the blood was still oozing. Every few seconds a drop fell, dark, almost colourless in the dead light. Drop, drop, drop. To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow... He had discovered Time and Death and God.

When the phenomenal ego transcends itself, the essential Self is free to realize, in terms of a finite consciousness, the fact of its own eternity, together with the correlative fact that every particular in the world of experience partakes of the timeless and the infinite. This is liberation, this is enlightenment, this is the beatific vision, in which all things are perceived as they are "in themselves" and not in relation to a craving and abhorring ego.

Why don't you give them these books about God? For the same reason as we don't give them Othello; they're old, they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now. But God doesn't change. Men do though.

Love is the plummet as well as the astrolabe of God's mysteries, and the pure in heart can see far down into the depths of the divine justice, to catch a glimpse, not indeed of the details of the cosmic process, but at least of its principle and nature. These insights permit them to say [...] that all shall be well, that, in spite of time, all is well, and that the problem of evil has its solution in the eternity, which men can, if they so desire, experience, but can never describe.

an infinity of precautions