Quotes About Eternity

The prospect of being immortal doesn't excite me, but the prospect of being a materialistic idol for four years does appeal.

If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

They say the good you do lives after you. Bob is one of those who proves that.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Death will be my wedding, children and glory.

Death cannot be what Life is, Child; the cup Of Death is empty, and Life hath always hope.

Never that is shall die.

One moment, one short moment - and forever sorrow.

for if we, mortals who die, are to have cares even there, I know not where one can turn, for to die is considered the greatest remedy for evils.

For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to date, including all the lost books and the ones that the authors burned when they came back from the last publisher.

I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn't be over-dreamed—that voice was a deathless song.

He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

that voice was a deathless song.

But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain...

You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growing, gathering light and storing it - then after an eternity pouring it forth in a glance, the fragment of a sentence, to that part of him that cherished all beauty and all illusion.