Quotes About Eternity

Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.

He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.

Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.

But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.

If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?

The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only? For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'?

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.

Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.