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Quotes About Eternity

The contemplation of Mont Blanc's unchanging summits for three or four days last month, the sight of that eternal snow, immaculate, sublime in its whiteness and calm, was enough to restore to my soul a serenity it had not known for a long time.
~ George Sand
arrachons, s'il se peut, au néant de l'oubli, le sillon de Germain, le fin laboureur
~ George Sand
We have loved each other well, dear Willie, but now, for reasons we cannot understand, that bond has been broken. But our bond can never be broken. As long as I live, you will always be with me, child.
~ George Saunders
Sermon: Why this surprising? Did you think you were going to live forever? Only difference between you, sitting there anticipating rest of your day, and Todd, in coffin, bound for eternal home in cold earth? Is heartbeat. Feel that, people? In your chests? This is thin line between you and grave. So why do you live like you are eternal? That foolish, you are fools. This scary? This not scary! This truth, this reality!
~ George Saunders
We have loved each other well, dear Willie, but now, for reasons we cannot understand, that bond has been broken. But our bond can never be broken. As long as I live, you will always be with me, child. Then let out a sob.
~ George Saunders
None of that ever was, he said. And it never will be.
~ George Saunders
None of it was real; nothing was real. Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within a vast energy-broth, but then we named them, and loved them, and, in this way, brought them forth. And now must lose them. I send this out to you, dear friends, before I go, in this instantaneous thought-burst, from a place where time slows and then stops and we may live forever in a single instant. Goodbye goodbye good—
~ George Saunders
Showed no sign of abating. roger bevins iii Was proceeding with a fury that suggested the two might well fight on into eternity. hans vollman Unless some fundamental and unimaginable alteration of reality should occur.
~ George Saunders
Never in my nearly eighty years of life on earth had I experienced a greater or more bitter contrast between happiness (the happiness I felt even glimpsing that exalted tent, from such a great distance) and sadness (I was not within the tent, and even a few seconds without seemed a dreadful eternity).
~ George Saunders
Schopenhauer asegura que cuando nuestro universo se extinga, la música permanecerá. Para
~ George Steiner
Till her appointed course be run; Till on the darkness faint her breath Flown to the silent void, and Death Sit crowned upon the ashen sun. ("The Testimony of the Suns")
~ George Sterling
The pathway traced with blood and tears, and dust of all our father's dead, Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red, Fade to the mist of nameless years. ("The Testimony of the Suns")
~ George Sterling
For mystery hath lordship here, and ye Seem spirit-flowers born to startle man With intimations of eternity And hint of what the flowers of Heaven may be.
~ George Sterling
death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
~ George Washington
How long must a man lie dead," he recited, puzzled by the words that came out of him. "Forever is too long. There must be mercy somewhere.
~ George Zebrowski
Poetry leads to the same place as all forms of eroticism — to the blending and fusion of separate objects. It leads us to eternity, it leads us to death, and through death to continuity. Poetry is eternity; the sun matched with the sea.
~ Georges Bataille
Life will dissolve itself in death, rivers in the sea, and the known in the unknown.
~ Georges Bataille
the universe is within me as it is within itself nothing separates us anymore I bump against it in myself
~ Georges Bataille
Busco a un tiempo lo eterno y lo efímero
~ Georges Perec
Tu n'est pas mort et la mort même ne saurait te délivrer...
~ Georges Perec
There are women whose love only ends with death.
~ Georges Rodenbach
Aveau destul timp, È™i unul È™i altul, întreg timpul care îi va separa din momentul în care unul din ei ar muri.
~ Georges Simenon
that if you were offered the choice between a splendid body or a splendid mind you would choose the mind, because it would long outlast the body.
~ Georgette Heyer
True love is like some infinite way of being that we become part of: a flowing energy of willingness, an eternal yes resounding with every heartbeat.
~ Gerald G. May