Quotes About Eternity

Heaven is a place where you cannot change and nothing can ever happen, so the things you love are always eternal. Hell is exactly the same.

Endings don't mean anything. Meanings lie where the world takes its breath, and that is always now.

Alas the day that gave me birth! Worse than my prison is the endless earth, now I am doomed eternally to dwell, not in purgatory, but in hell

Alas the day that gave me birth! Worse then my prison is the endless earth, now I am doomed eternally to dwell, not in purgatory, but in hell.

The poets are wrong when they describe the grave as cold.

Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.

The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end.

the concept of eternity must not be grasped as if it were suspended time, or in any case not in the sense that eternity would come after time, for this would turn eternity into the future, in other words into a moment of time. And the concept of eternity must also not be understood in the sense of a negation of time, so that it would be merely an abstraction of time. For time in its concept is, like the concept itself generally, eternal, and therefore also absolute presence.

Logiikka pitää näin ymmärtää puhtaan järjen järjestelmänä, puhtaan ajatuksen valtakuntana. Tämä valtakunta on totuus sinänsä ja itselleen, ilman verhoa. Asia voidaan siksi ilmaista niin, että tämä sisältö on Jumalan esitystä sellaisena kuin hän on ikuisessa olemuksessaan ennen luonnon ja äärellisen hengen luomista.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

Here there is nothing but love and beauty. Ugh! it is like sitting for all eternity at the first act of a fashionable play, before the complications begin.

So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.

There's this man who lives in the sky, and he has ten things he doesn't want you to do, and you'll burn for a long time if you do them. But he loves you.

Love once, love always

My life is too short, and God's work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world.

To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.

In their death they were not divided.

Fielding lived when the days were longer (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.

But God lasts when everything else is gone. What shall we do if he is not our friend?

Three words have often been used as the trumpet-call of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty - pronounced with terrible earnestness. How inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable was the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third.