Quotes About Eternity

Besides, life was not precious, for what was the body after all, but carrion, and the sojourn on earth but a halt on the way to eternal life?

The good, the true, and the beautiful, are three faces of the same ideal of perfection, the Infinite.

When we say that God is infinite, we do not mean that He is of immeasurable size and duration, but that He is beyond all space and time. He is neither in space nor in time; for this reason He is eternal and infinite, and therefore He is also incomprehensible.

We say that science is in its infancy; it will never become decrepit, for if truth be infinite, there will always be new aspects of it to be discovered.

Sweet is the oblivion of sleep; But sweeter far is the sleep beyond oblivion.

It is a long road that leads to eternity, and the inns for travelers are few.

If we could only remember in life that the form which we call ourselves is not our real immortal self at all, we would not give it such an exaggerated importance, though we would nevertheless take needful care of it.

Those people who think of their departed friends as being all-wise, how disappointed they would be if they could know that the life on this side is only an extension of the life on earth! If the thoughts and desires there have been only for material pleasures, the thoughts and desires here are likely to be the same.

Time's hidden ways thine eyes reveal to me: Deep in their vision broods the memory Of all the myriad lives thy soul has known, Thou passionate pilgrim of eternity!

Immortal love is fearless, and leaves the key of its door on the outside.

an end; He smiles in His sleep sometimes, and men know the Golden Age; sometimes He is restless, too, and the revolutions come. Will the Dreamer never awake? Who knows! I would hold Him sleeping; For if He should rise from His nest on the down of eternity, He might rub His drowsy eyes -- and I should forget to be.

Pray for the repose of his soul. He was so tired.

Now death was a place, a place to which people disappeared forever when they died, a place that gradually sucked away the clarity of memory afterward for a similar one-way journey.

This is something an ordinary man can never know. You will enter the House of Dreams, Juanito, where you will live forever. Your mother and father and sisters and brothers, your grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, all you will greet in their dreams. And only you, among them, will be safe.

Immortality is only for the gods," he whispered. "I wonder how they can stand it.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

We feel and know that we are eternal.

2. The essence of things are from all eternity, and unto all eternity shall remain immutable; The existence of God is essence; Therefore...

Happy is the man who can recognise in the work of Today a connected portion of the work of life, and an embodiment of the work of Eternity ...

Alas, the vices of man, as horrifying as they are presumed to be, contain proof (if only in their infinite expansiveness!) of his bent for the infinite.

Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.