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Quotes About Eternity

L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.
~ Franz Kafka
I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.
~ Franz Kafka
I waver, continually fly to the summit of the mountain, but cannot stay up there for more than a moment. Others waver too, but in lower regions, with greater strength; if they are in danger of falling, they are caught up by the kinsman who walks beside them for that purpose. But I waver on the heights; it is not death, alas, but the eternal torments of dying.
~ Franz Kafka
There is infinite hope, but not for man.
~ Franz Kafka
I'm tired, can't think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that for through all eternity.
~ Franz Kafka
I want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
~ Franz Kafka
Tinere?ea ve?nic? este imposibil?,chiar dac? n-ar exista alt obstacol,introspec?ia o face cu neputin??
~ Franz Kafka
If what was supposed to be destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it can't have been decisive; however, if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.
~ Franz Kafka
The time allotted to you is so short that if you lose one second you have already lost your whole life, for it is no longer, it is always just as long as the time you lose.
~ Franz Kafka
When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the mourning survivors had hope for their loved one's eternal soul. However, when someone dies spiritually in the wilderness of sin, hope may be replaced by dread and fear for the loved one's eternal welfare.
~ James E. Faust
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
~ William James
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
~ Neil Gaiman
Time will pass and seasons will come and go.
~ Roy Bean
Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
~ Charles Spurgeon
God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover.
~ John Piper
Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
~ Samuel Hopkins
God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.
~ John Piper
In the beginning, before the creation of Heaven and Earth, God made the angels; free intelligences and free wills; out of His love He made them, that they might be eternally happy. And that their happiness might be complete, He gave them the perfection of a created nature; that is, He gave them freedom.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.
~ Charles Spurgeon
They always win who side with God.
~ Frederick William Faber
He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
~ Henry Drummond
Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.
~ Henning Mankell
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown all over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.
~ George William Russell