Quotes About Eternity

Omul a pierdut simtul marilor taceri, al marilor linisti ce imbata fiinta cu arome de eternitate.

Stari sufletesti conditionate? Dar de cine? De lume? Dar ea nu exista decat pentru servitori. Si viata este o realitate doar pentru oamenii dintr-o bucata, inchinatori inconstienti ai vesnicei prostii.

Are we to execrate our age- or all ages? Do we think of Buddha as withdrawing from the world on account of his contemporaries?

Din toate epocile istorice, n-aÈ™ putea munci cu sufletul împ?cat decât ca sclav, pe vremea când faraonii în?lÈ›au piramidele. S? ridici la lespezi sub lovituri de bici, dar s? le vezi încununate de veÈ™nicie È™i s? simÈ›i vidul ce se naÈ™te în jurul piramidelor, din dezertarea timpului! Ultimul sclav egiptean era mai aproape de veÈ™nicie decât oricare filosof al Occidentului.

Es el miedo a la muerte lo que motiva a los incondicionales de la eternidad: en efecto, la única ventaja real de la experiencia de lo eterno es que nos hace olvidar la muerte. Pero, ¿qué sucede cuando la contemplación se acaba?

Solo la música puede crear una complicidad indestructible entre dos seres. Una pasión es perecedera, se degrada como todo aquello que participa de la vida; mientras que la música pertenece a un orden superior a la vida y, por supuesto, a la muerte

If it is true that by death we once more become what we were before being, would it not have been better to abide by that pure possibility, not to stir from it? What use was this detour, when we might have remained forever in an unrealized plenitude?

That faint light in each of us which dates back to before our birth, to before all births, is what must be protected if we want to rejoin that remote glory from which we shall never know why we are separated.

Vocea viorii este zgomotul pe care-l face, deschizandu-se, poarta paradisului.

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be. — Emil Cioran, The Book of Delusions (? Humanitas, January 1, 1991) Originally publishedJanuary 1, 1936

Death is not altogether useless: after all, it is because of death that we may be able to recuperate the prenatal space, our only space....

Nostalgia de um mundo sem "ideal", de uma agonia sem doutrina, de uma eternidade sem vida... O Paraíso... Mas não poderíamos existir um instante sem enganar-nos: o profeta em cada um de nós é o grão de loucura que nos faz prosperar em nosso vazio.

Leaving to the Gentiles the ephemeral advantages of salvation, they opted for the lasting disadvantages of perdition.

We have always been dying, and yet death has lost none of its freshness, its originality. Herein lies the secret of secrets.

It's all the way it's always been and probably always will be until there's nothing left any more.

That faint light in each of us which dates back to before our birth, to before all births, is what must be protected if we want to rejoin that remote glory from which we shall never know why we were separated.

I am both wound and knife"—that is our absolute, our eternity.

Over the gate of our cemeteries should be written: "Nothing Is Tragic. Everything Is Unreal.

This situation will last until the end of time. And it is to this situation that they owe the mishap of not perishing . . .

Estar en el tiempo, con menos provecho que Dios antes de la creación —imaginar y alcanzar el límite absoluto de la inutilidad.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Action: Tell your husband how much you love him.   Today's Wisdom: Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. —CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.

Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!