Quotes About Eternity

How gloomy would be these mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he shall never die; that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on for ever. Those that lie here stretched before us, the wise and the powerful of ancient times, warn us to remember the shortness of our present state; they were, perhaps, snatched away while they were busy, like us, in the choice of life.

To me,' said the Princess, 'the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.

ABHORRING  (ABHO'RRING)   The object of abhorrence. This seems not to be the proper use of the participial noun. And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.BibleIsaiah,lxvi. 44.

The river / We cannot cross / Flows forever

I should much wish, like the Indian Vishna, to float along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotus, and wake once in a million years for a few minutes – just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more.

A new Earth and new Heaven.

EPITAPH ON AN INFANT Ere Sin could blight or Sorrow fade,   Death came with friendly care: The opening Bud to Heaven convey'd,   And bade it blossom there.

Ik keer me naar de kist. De kist met mijn dood, niet mijn leven. Want mijn leven, dat ben ik, en ik ben eeuwig. Toch kent niemand de waarheid: dat ik voor hen sta als een actrice die na haar laatste applaus het toneel verlaat. Mijn kostuum en mijn masker liggen in de kist, en iedereen denkt dat ik het ben.

Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices.

Los nombres sirven para fingir que el tiempo no pasa y, al final, son lo único que queda de nosotros.

Solo hay una cosa que paraliza el tiempo. Solo hay un hecho que deja a sus protagonistas en el pasado para siempre

someone will remember us I say even in another time

You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

I declare That later on, Even in an age unlike our own, Someone will remember who we are.

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

The sky the sky- same as it always was.

That's immortality my darlings Spencer said.

I can wait beyond never.

Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?

Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless.

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.