Quotes About Eternity

Huset der oppe, sa jeg og pekte – er dødens hus, Arnardo.

I have accomplished so much in my life, but I can take nothing with me when I go. Nothing except what's in here." He moved his hand between them and pressed it against his heart. "You're in here. You've always been and you'll always be. You are what I will take back.

People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

God has many names, though He is only one Being.

Time is not composed of indivisible nows any more than any other magnitude is composed of indivisibles.

The evil fortune of the living in no way affects the dead.

If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

But if we get our souls saved, we go to Heaven, and Heaven is for eternity. We'll never have to worry about the environment from then on. That's the most important thing. I'm thinking long-term.

We're on this earth for a limited amount of time," he says, leaning on the edge of the window. "But if we get our souls saved, we got to Heaven, and Heaven is for eternity. We'll never have to worry about the environment from then on. That's the most important thing. I'm thinking *long-term*.

Freud reminds them that children do not conceptualize or fear death as do adults. He then lists what he thinks adults fear about death: "the horrors of corruption . . . freezing in the ice-cold grave . . . the terrors of eternal nothingness." He then adds that adults cannot tolerate these fears, "as is proved by all the myths of a future life." Freud believed that people accepted the religious worldview because of their fear of death and their wish for permanence.

e uns tinham apenas gasto horas, outros a eternidade; e apagava-se o rasto convulso de uma consciência cujo segredo perdêramos havia muito sem disso darmos conta; e tudo era indiferença, talvez recordação da ausência, talvez; de uma maneira ou de outra todos temos cicatrizes: há umas que se não vêem.

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

The future is the past returning through another gate.

A wounded love carries a scar to the grave.

La storia che raccontiamo è l'eterna storia dell'amore nell'eterno paese della poesia; non mettiamo date all'eternità.

I don't believe in omens or fear Forebodings. I flee from neither slander Nor from poison. Death does not exist. Everyone's immortal. Everything is too. No point in fearing death at seventeen, Or seventy. There's only here and now, and light; Neither death, nor darkness, exists. We're all already on the seashore; I'm one of those who'll be hauling in the nets When a shoal of immortality swims by. from "Life, Life

Basta-me minha imortalidade,/ o fluir de meu sangue de uma para outra era,/ mas em troca de um canto quente e seguro/ daria de bom grado minha vida,/ conquanto sua agulha voadora/ não me arrastasse, feito linha, mundo afora.

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won't be able to tell the carrots from the onions.

I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever.

Hedge funds are not noted for their long-term thinking - for them, a quarter is an eternity.

What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.