Quotes About Eternity

This was a reminder that a man can defy God for only the brief instant that his life flickers across the expanse of eternity.

we shall not fall out of this world. We are in it once and for all.')]

In inconstient, nimic nu ia sfarsit, nu trece, nu se uita

Death the only god who must come when he's called

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

One night I summoned God, if He really existed, to show Himself to me. He didn't, and I never addressed another word to Him. In my heart of hearts I was very glad He didn't exist. I should have hated it if what was going on here below had had to end up in eternity.

Por qué ya no me quiere? Habría que saber porqué me ha querido. Una no se plantea la cuestión. Incluso si no se es ni orgullosa ni narcisista, es tan extraordinario ser una misma, justamente una misma, esto es tan único que parece natural que sea único también para alguien más. Me quería, es todo. Y para siempre ya que siempre seré yo.

Time vanishes behind those who leave this world, and the older I get the more my past years draw together.

the absolute could be enclosed within the last moments of a dying person.

No se muere de haber nacido, ni de haber vivido, ni de vejez. Se muere de algo».

Estaba dispuesta a negar el espacio y el tiempo antes de admitir que el amor puede no ser eterno.

Little star that I see, Drawn by the moon.' The old words, just as they were first written... They were a link joining me to past centuries, when the stars shone exactly as they do today. And this rebirth and this permanence gave me a feeling of eternity.

C'était tellement attendu, et tellement inconcevable, (...). C'était elle encore, et à jamais son absence.

To give up our imaginary position as the center, to renounce it, not only intellectually but in the imaginative part of our soul, that means to awaken to what is real and eternal, to see the true light and hear the true silence.

Stars and blossoming fruit trees: Utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Time's violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

Monotony is the most beautiful or the most atrocious thing. The most beautiful if it is a reflection of eternity--the most atrocious if it is the sign of an unvarying perpetuity. It is time surpassed or time sterilized.

Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose.

If we apply to the present the point of that desire within us which corresponds to finality, it pierces right through to the eternal.

Le temps, par son cours, use et détruit ce qui est temporel. Aussi y-a-t-il plus d'éternité dans le passé que dans le présent. Valeur de l'histoire bien comprise analogue à celle du souvenir dans Proust. Ainsi le passé nous présente quelque chose qui est à la fois réel et meilleur que nous, et qui peut nous tirer ver le haut, ce que l'avenir ne fait jamais.

When pain and weariness reach the point of causing a sense of perpetuity to be born in the soul, through contemplating this perpetuity with acceptance and love, we are snatched away into eternity.

No existe elección de remedios. Solamente existe uno, uno solo. Una sola cosa hace soportable la monotonía, una luz de eternidad: es la belleza.