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Quotes About Eternity

To spend life for something which outlasts it.
~ William James
My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.
~ William Shatner
When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.
~ John Calvin
Life--a lifelong death sentence.
~ Julian Tuwim
The days passed, as they do, and life went on.
~ Kevin Brooks
I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.
~ Lily Cole
Life is the only sentence which doesn't end with a period.
~ Lois Gould
history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.
~ Marthe Bibesco
Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.
~ Mary Ann Shaffer
Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Life and death are different sides of the same coin.
~ Neil Gaiman
Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Just as one gets the firstfruits of spiritual salvation in the life that now is, so we get the firstfruits of our physical salvation in the life that now is.
~ R. A. Torrey
Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
~ H. Rider Haggard, She
If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.
~ Max Lucado
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
~ Annie Besant
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
~ Antonio Porchia
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
~ B. C. Forbes
The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.
~ Billy Graham
Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.
~ Charles Spurgeon
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
~ Cornel West
Time passes. That's the rule. No matter what happens, no matter how much it might feel like everything in your life has been frozen around one particular moment, time marches on.
~ Cynthia Hand
Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.
~ Derek R. Audette
...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore
~ Edgar Allan Poe