Quotes About Eternity

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place...

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

And the end and the beginning where always there, before the beginning and after the end.

And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end. And all is always now.

In my beginning is my end.

I have seen the eternal Footman snicker hold my coat, and snicker. And in short I was afraid...

Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

We die with the dying; See, they depart, and we go with them. We are born with the dead: See, they return, and bring us with them.

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is

The important fact is that for the man the act is eternal, and that for the brief space he has to live, he is already dead. He is already in a different world from ours. He has crossed the frontier. The important fact is that something is done which can not be undone-a possibility which none of us realize until we face it ourselves.

Death! I had not thought Death had undone so many

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid. And

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past, If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

And I have seen the eternal footman hold my coat and snicker.

Pareva a me che nube ne coprisse lucida, spessa, solida e polita, quasi adamante che lo sol ferisse. Per entro sè l'eterna margarita ne recepette, com'acqua recepe raggio di luce, permanendo unita. "Meseemed a cloud enveloped us, shining, dense, firm and polished, like diamond smitten by the sun. Within itself the eternal pearl received us, as water doth receive a ray of light, though still itself uncleft".

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable.

At the beginning, eight years ago, I felt, at first, that sense of separation, Of isolation unredeemable, irrevocable— It's eternal, or gives a knowledge of eternity, Because it feels eternal while it lasts. That is one hell.

We die with the dying; see they return and bring us with them.

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...

no other bosses but mine and my opponents' can have your soul jerked out of your body and sent to the deepest fiery pits to suffer for eternity. Unless you work for Walmart.

Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.