Quotes About Eternity

Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can't believe, I can't accept that you die and that's the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there's something about the mind that's more than that.

When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality.

Time is something that cannot be bought; it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply, Time is simply how you live your life.

And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires.

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.

Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.

I wanted James Carville to never die. I wanted Dylan, the poet, to not die. I wanted to put these people in a place where they would be inviolate. It wasn't enough to have a still life of them. I wanted to surround them with the lives they led.

I drove on through the piled masses of granite and down through the meadows of coarse grass where cows grazed. The same gaudy slacks and short shorts and peasant handkerchiefs as yesterday, the same light breeze and golden sun and clear blue sky, the same smell of pine needles, the same cool softness of a mountain summer. But yesterday was a hundred years ago, something crystallized in time, like a fly in amber

Of course I have no right to assume that I shall go to heaven. Sounds rather dull, as a matter of fact.

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

Perché vuoi fare la maestra? - Per rompere le balle alle bambine, - rispose Zazie.- Quelle che avranno la mia età fra dieci, tra vent'anni, tra cinquant'anni, fra cento anni, fra mille anni. Aver sempre da rompere le balle a qualcuno.

That a life lasts longer than the actual body through which it moves.

Measured over too short a span, change becomes imperceptible; people mistake today's peculiarities for eternal verities.

Where does a story begin? The fiction is that they do, and end, rather than that the stuff of a story is just a cup of water scooped from the sea and poured back into it

but it is not what one does so much as the way that while one does it time runs past forever.

Te montrer à l'univers, le temps d'un éclair, puis m'enfermer avec toi, seul, et te regarder pendant l'éternité.

Can belief save you?" he retorts. "Even the demons believe—and shudder!" (James 2:14,19).

The Rationalists argued that God's attributes could not possibly exist coeternally with God, but must be a part of creation.

Nothing can be substantially independent of God because there is nothing else but God." In other words, what we call the world and what we call God are not independent or discrete. Rather, the world is God's self-expression. It is God's essence realized and experienced.2

Each age has different tensions and terrors, but they open on the same abyss.

Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.

If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?

True love stories never have endings.