Quotes About Eternity

Heaven is not a place, and it's not a time. Heaven is being perfect.

Sully,for shame! Jonathan said in reproach, and don't be foolish! What are we trying to practice everyday? If our friendship depends on things like 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?

Si nuestra amistad depende de cosas como el espacio y el tiempo, entonces, cuando por fin superemos el espacio y el tiempo, habremos destruido nuestra propia hermandad! Pero supera el espacio, y nos quedará sólo un Aquí. Supera el tiempo, y nos quedará sólo un Ahora. Y entre el Aquí y el Ahora, ¿no crees que podremos volver a vernos un par de veces?

Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.

Real love stories never have endings.

Are you telling me that even though it's changing every second, the sky is always a perfect sky?

No, Jonathan, there is no such place. Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.

No podrías matar aunque trataras, porque la vida es indestructible. Pero eres libre de creer en la muerte, si insistes».

Oare ce exers?m în fiecare zi? Dac? prietenia noastr? depinde de spaÅ£iu ÅŸi timp, atunci în ziua când vom învinge în sfârÅŸit spaÅ£iul ÅŸi timpul, ne vom fi distrus ÅŸi propria noastr? fr??ie. Dac? învingem spaÅ£iul, r?mânem numai Aici. Dac? învingem timpul r?mânem numai Acum. Åži între Aici ÅŸi Acum, oare nu crezi c? ne-am putea vedea din când în când?

Remember, Jonathan, heaven isn't a place or a time, because place and time are so very meaningless.

God doesn't protect anyone. Everyone's already indestructible.

Heaven is neither the place, nor time. Heaven is perfection.

Sometimes when he was in the country he would sleep in a barn and wake in the night and go out and look at the stars and there were so many, and he knew they were there before him, and they would be there after him. That was sort of awful and sort of wonderful.

If I Should Die Before You Do When you wake up from death, you will find yourself in my arms, and I will be kissing you, and I will be crying.

Someday Time will die, and Love will bury it

Now it was close to sunset and the earth was beginning to cool off in the manner of eternity and office girls were returning like penguins from Montgomery Street.

Mark Twain's dismissal of the fear of death is another: 'I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

To cite the old clichés, science gets the age of rocks, and religion the rock of ages; science studies how the heavens go, religion how to go to heaven.

By the way, what presumptuous egocentricity to believe that earth-shaking events, on the scale at which a god (or a tectonic plate) might operate, must always have a human connection. Why should a divine being, with creation and eternity on his mind, care a fig for petty human malefactions? We humans give ourselves such airs, even aggrandizing our poky little 'sins' to the level of cosmic significance!

But we exist now. We are caring, intelligent animals and can treasure our brief lives. Why is eternal better than temporal, or supernatural higher than natural? Doesn't rarity increase value? God is an idea, not a natural creature. Why should his image be more valuable than our own nature?

and how if she didn't see him for another thirty years she would still love him, how she would still love him if he was dead until she was dead too.

He had the sense that the gods was just another name for time, but he felt that it would be as stupid to say such a thing as it would be to suggest that against the gods we can never prevail.

Days and months are travellers of eternity. So too the years that pass by

a belief in each other, a belief that they cleave to only more strongly when death comes. For if the living let go of the dead, their own life ceases to matter. The fact of their own survival somehow demands that they are one, now and forever.