Quotes About Eternity

The past never truly dies. It is there, waiting, just below the surface of the now.

That was what death was like: trapped in a small space with a big weight holding you down for all eternity.

For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven.

There are places where years have no meaning, where only a hair's breadth of history separates the present from the past. Standing there on that bleak hillside, a young man in a place where other young men had died, it was possible to feel a connection to that past, a sense that in some place further back on the the stream of time these young men were still fighting, and still dying, that they would always be fighting this battle, in this place, over and over again, with ever the same end.

The Great Malevolence had been squatting in the blackness for a very long time. He was there billions of years before people, or dinosaurs, or small, single-celled organisms that decided one day to become larger, multicelled organisms so they could, at some point in the future, invent literature, painting, and annoying ring tones for cell phones.

Waneth the watch, but the world holdeth. —Anonymous, "The Seafarer

Life will stop, but time will go on.

War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.

Time was ," it said. "Time is ," it said. "And time will —"    But the burning meteor then fell upon it, and neither it nor what destroyed it was ever seen again.

Let go into His arms until you find yourself obsessed on things divine

Christmas succeeds Christmas rather than the days it follows.

What you learn as you get older is that the world is old, and has been old for a long time.

Circumference = nowhere; center point = everywhere.

John Crowley

When you return home, you'll tell the story of how you sought it and failed, and that story will be told and told again. And when you're dead yourself, the story will go on being told, and in that telling you'll speak and act and be alive again.

Houses made of houses within houses made of time.

How long is the Tale? she had asked, and Mrs. Underhill had said: you and your children and your children's children will all be buried before that Tale's all told.

We're made of stories now, brother. It's why we never die even if we do.

We're made of stories now brother. Its why we don't die even when we do.

That night he dreamt of Heaven: Heaven was a dark amusement park, small and joyless, just an iron Ferris wheel turning in eternity and a glum arcade to amuse the faithful.

There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

Natural units tell us that in a well-defined sense the Universe is very old already, about 1060 Planck times old. Life on Earth didn't appear until after the Universe was 1059 Planck times old. We were a late arrival.

The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.

The Phoenix riddle hath more witBy us, we two being one, are it.So to one neutral thing both sexes fit,We die and rise the same, and proveMysterious by this love.