Quotes About Eternity

We all feel that we are something other than a being which someone once created out of nothing: from this arises the confidence that, while death may be able to end our life, it cannot end our existence.

No little part of the torment of existence lies in this, that Time is continually pressing upon us, never letting us take breath, but always coming after us, like a taskmaster with a whip. If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the misery of boredom. But

Everyone appears mad who recognizes the eternal ideas in fleeting things.

Of every event in our life we can say only for one moment that it is; for ever after, that it was. Every evening we are poorer by a day. It might, perhaps, make us mad to see how rapidly our short span of time ebbs away; if it were not that in the furthest depths of our being we are secretly conscious of our share in the exhaustible spring of eternity, so that we can always hope to find life in it again.

Apesar de haver muitas vezes dialogado com o velho Platão e com o seu conterrâneo e predecessor na linhagem dos grandes filósofos alemães, Immanuel Kant, foi na sabedoria oriental que Arthur Schopenhauer encontrou sua fonte eterna – mais precisamente nos Vedas hindus, e no Bhagavad Gita, o ápice de toda a sua filosofia.

What is time? What is this entity consisting of mere movement without anything that moves? and, What is space, this omnipresent nothing out of which no thing can emerge without ceasing to be something? That time and space belong to the subject

Require the immortality of the individual is wanting to perpetuate an error to infinity.

El amor es la compensación de la muerte, su correlativo esencial.

A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more.

Wir sind eben bloß zeitliche, endliche, vergängliche, traumartige, wie Schatten vorüberfliegende Wesen. Und was sollte denen ein Intellekt, der unendliche, ewige, absolute Verhältnisse fasste?

Quanto mais alguém pertence à posteridade, isto é, à humanidade em geral e como um todo, tanto mais estranho será à sua própria época.

And we, my dears, everything we are and ever will be are just a twinkle in her eye,.

Not death. Just the end of living.

Morire divenne semplicemente un altro modo di vivere.

Although moral truths are eternal, their actual application is subject to temporal modification.

How could something have no end, and if it had no end exactly where did it leave us?

I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

Victor Hugo: "If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

They say sound never dies, but travels on in space--what happens to a man's heartbeats?--so many of them in fifty-six years--could they be gathered again, in some sort of condenser, and put to use once more?

For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.

Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God: God alone is sufficient.