Quotes About Eternity

As a species, we've always been interested in what happens when we're no longer around, all the way back to 'Revelations' in 'The New Testament.'

I want to cry in your arms for a hundred years; I want to wake up in your arms for a hundred years.

It seems to me that I have always wanted to say the same thing in my books: that life is one, that mystery is all around us, that yeterday, today and tomorrow are all spread out in the pattern of eternity, together, and that although love may wear many faces in the incomprehensible panorama of time, in the heart that loves, it is always the same.

T]here exists an allegiance between the dead and the unborn of which we the living are merely the ligature.

If they keep exposing you to education, you might even realize some day that man becomes immortal only in what he writes on paper, or hacks into rock, or slabbers onto a canvas, or pulls out of a piano.

"In the days of my youth, I remembered my God,And he hath not forgotten my age."

Yet leaving here a name, I trust,That will not perish in the dust.

Heaven: it's better than a chocolate bar.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God!

Yea, I am one with all I see, With wind and wave, with pine and palm; Their very elements in me Are fused to make me what I am. Through me their common life-stream flows, And when I yield this human breath, In leaf and blossom, bud and rose, Live on I will…. There is no Death

A tragedy on earth might ultimately be revealed as a triumph in heaven.

world" is totally absent.

As a spark proceeds from fire, "individuality" emanates from the Absolute Self.

There is really no creation, and no dissolution.

I've yet to hear from anyone who has passed from this earth who has come back and said, "Tell everyone that their reward in heaven is in direct proportion to how much of a miserable life they live on this earth.

Llegará un día en el que alguien pronunciará por última vez nuestro nombre en el mundo. Es el instante de la muerte definitiva.

Porque no habrá en la noche un camino abierto por el cual se pueda correr una eternidad alejándose de la tierra.

Nothing is ever behind us.

He asked me when I planned to come back. Always, I said.

Uno no termina de leer, aunque los libros se acaben, de la misma manera que uno no termina de vivir, aunque la muerte sea un hecho cierto.

Todos estamos acostumbrados a morirnos cada cierto tiempo y tan poco a poco que la verdad es que cada día estamos más vivos. Infinitamente viejos e infinitamente vivos.

God and chance belonged to art, eternity and labyrinths to science.

At that moment, in spite of the dizziness, I felt like Nietzsche when he had his Eternal Return epiphany. An inexorable succession of nanoseconds, each one blessed by eternity.

Uno nunca termina de leer, aunque los libros se acaben, de la misma manera que uno nunca termina de vivir, aunque la muerte sea un hecho cierto.