Quotes About Eternity

What am I? Do I live? Or am I walking always in death, forever in love with time?

It's always the young ones who end it. The ones for whom mortality holds magic. As we grow older it's eternity that is our boon.

Almost none of these very strong and patient souls sought the flesh again. But some of them had in the past. They had gone down and been reborn and discovered in the final analysis that they could not remember from one fleshly life to another, so there was no real reason to keep being born! Better to linger here, in the eternity that was known to them, and to watch the Beauty of Creation, and it did seem very beautiful to them, as it had seemed to us.

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I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning. Do you think the hereafter could be like that?

Although we cannot number the infinite, nevertheless it can be comprehended by Him whose knowledge has no bounds.

And I? What am I? Do I live? Or am I always walking in death? Forever in love with time?

In memory I went back to the days in Rome when I had been mortal, and there was my garden, the garden of the villa of my father, and I was walking in the soft grass and listening to the sound of the fountain, and then it seemed that all through time, the garden changed but never changed, and it was always there for me.

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?

My last sunrise,' said the vampire. 'That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise.

Those Who Must Be Kept are at peace, or in silence. More than that we may never know.

I want to be read. I want to be valued. That is perhaps the only shot at immortality a human being can have.

This is the only sun that you will ever see again. But a millenium of nights will be yours to see as no mortal has ever seen it, to snatch from the distant stars as if you were Prometheus, an endless illumination by which to understand all things.

Don't be afraid, child, not even for a moment. You'll die now to live forever, as I take your blood and give it back to you. I won't let you slip away.

Be my child, Amadeo," I whispered in this sweetness. "Be my child forever," I said. "Have I ever loved anyone more than you?

Beauty carries us to our doom. Or, to put it more accurately, we are made by immortal by those who cannot sever themselves from our charms.

Lei non e' sempre stato un vampiro, vero? attacco'. No rispose l'altro. Avevo venticinque anni quando lo divvenni: era il 1791.

You gave me your immortal kiss, she said, though not to me, but to herself. You loved me with your vampire nature.

Do I live? Or am I walking always in death, forever in love with time?

I would have given you my secrets the first I came with you to this house. I told you then that such a place could draw you out of eternity, that it was as the castles of old. Remember the patterns, Julien, the graceful battlements. And through the mist you will see them, distinct. But you would not have my lessons then. Will you have them now? I know you. You are alive. You didn't want to hear about death.

He came towards Maharet, staring intently at her, at her smooth face which now bore no trace whatever of human life, the florid human eyes seemingly set within a sculpture.

I am The Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal. More or less.

You gave me your immortal kiss. - Claudia, Interview With The Vampire

I had slain all sense of time.