Quotes About Eternity

Pray for a partner who will love you unconditionally instead of whom will attract your eyes, for the good-looking is non-permanent and for good heart is eternal.

Si monumentum requiris circumspice [If you would see the man's monument, look around].

when one dies, those who survive ask what he has left behind; the angel who bends above him asks what he has sent before.

Death cancels all engagements.

What call ye them or Goods or Ills, ill-goods, good-ills, a loss, a gain, When realms arise and falls a roof; a world is won, a man is slain?

"Be ye Good Boys, go seek for Heav'en, come pay the priest that holds the key;" So spake, and speaks, and aye shall speak the last to enter Heaven, he.

The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this name. The Sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and the light but the shadow of God.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.

Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.

Sleep is a death; oh, make me try By sleeping what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave as now my bed!

There is surely a piece of Divinity within us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God.

All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the city of heaven.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?

To keep our eyes open longer were but to act our Antipodes. The huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep? or have slumbering thoughts at that time, when sleep itself must end, and, as some conjecture, all shall awake again?

That unextinguishable laugh in heaven.

Times before you, when even living men were antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number.

[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

Even such is time, that takes in trustOur youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us but with age and dust;Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days.And from which earth, and grave, and dust,The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.

I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.

The stars above will be below when man has Love.

Be drunk with LOVE, for Love is all that exists.