Quotes About Eternity

The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?

Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.

If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul.

I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.

Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.

How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.

I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.

Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?

The knowledge of reincarnation assures us that life is worth living. Life is not a one-shot deal. It is forever.

Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.

Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life.

...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.