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Quotes About Eternity

Eu não tenho filosofia: tenho sentidos... Se falo na Natureza não é porque saiba o que ela é, Mas porque a amo, e amo-a por isso, Porque quem ama nunca sabe o que ama Nem sabe porque ama, nem o que é amar... Amar é a eterna inocência, E a única inocência é não pensar...
~ Fernando Pessoa
Ma come entrerò mai in quella vita? Io non nacqui per essa. ... Ridere è un insulto al mistero nell'orrore che il non capito possa durare eternamente. Strano! Felicità, [...] composto di sensualità e infantilismo... Come posso averti, felicità?
~ Fernando Pessoa
Me fshi gjithçka nga dërrasa e zezë e një dite çfarëdo, me qenë i ri në çdo ag të ri, në një virgjni të re të përhershme t'emocionit: kjo dhe veç kjo ia vlen me qenë a me u pasë, për me qenë a me pasë atë që në mënyrë të papërkryeme jemi.
~ Fernando Pessoa
the prehistoric irresponsibility of the eternal waters.
~ Fernando Pessoa
It did not take long to conclude that, without God, would never come to understand where the universe began and where it ended, where it came from him, where he would go
~ Fernando Sabino
El sentido de todo, el lugar donde él estará para siempre.
~ Fernando Savater
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I couldn't make any judgment on the Summa, except to say this: I read it for about twenty minutes every night before I go to bed. If my mother were to come in during this process and say, 'Turn off that light. It's late,' I with a lifted finger and broad bland beatific expression, would reply, 'On the contrary, I answer that the light, being eternal and limitless, cannot be turned off. Shut your eyes,' or some such thing.
~ Flannery O'Connor
The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive...
~ Flannery O'Connor
But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.
~ Flannery O'Connor
The nearness I mean comes after death perhaps. It is what we are struggling for and if I found it either I would be dead or I would have seen it for a second and life would be intolerable.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Do you think, Mr. Motes," she said hoarsely, "that when you're dead, you're blind?" "I hope so," he said after a minute. "Why?" she asked, staring at him. After a while he said, "If there's no bottom in your eyes, they hold more.
~ Flannery O'Connor
esas comparaciones de prometido, esposo, amante celestial y de matrimonio eterno, que se repiten en los sermones, le despertaban en lo hondo del corazón ternezas inesperadas
~ Flaubert Gustave
I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal.
~ Vidya Balan
Father Time catches up with us all.
~ Steve Nicol
It's always good to have fears for your eternal soul.
~ Ross Douthat
We feel and know that we are eternal.
~ Baruch Spinoza
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
~ Voltaire
I was from a generation that didn't think that far into the future. We thought opportunities would always exist, that we would be fifteen forever.
~ Bebe Buell
In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.
~ Jean Racine
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
~ T. S. Eliot
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'
~ Billy Graham
I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
~ Jesus Christ