Quotes About Eternity

Firewood becomes ash and doesn't go back to being firewood again. But we shouldn't think of firewood as its past and ash as its future. Both firewood and ash have their own position in time and space. The past and future are cut off. Firewood and ash each have their own past and their own future. Just as ash doesn't go back to being firewood, human beings, when they die, don't come back to life again.

One of the problems for contemporary Western people is that Buddha's attitude toward rebirth is entirely different from ours. We want to live forever. Buddha and his followers did not. To him and to the audience he spoke to, rebirth was not a good thing.

Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?

Books make us feel alive, and though we obviously won't live forever, they make us feel as if we might.

A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

I'm keeping an eye on the future, an eye on the past, and the present in my pocket.

We weren't quite immortal. We did not age, so I suppose some of our kind could endure forever, if lakes and rivers last forever. Difficult to say. We did not really live, not like mortals. We dreamed.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

If the afterlife really is a big war," Kaladin said, "then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep.

The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity. Eternity ended ten years ago.

A book lives a new life every time it is read.

E soprattutto, dentro tutto quanto, attorno a tutto quanto, c'era la nebbia. Era più costante del sole, poiché non poteva essere nascosta dalle nuvole. Era più potente delle tempeste, poiché poteva durare più della furia delle intemperie. Era sempre lì. Mutevole ma eterna

She didn't see death, she saw life. She saw faith.

Prince Raoden of Arelon awoke early that morning, completely unaware that he had been damned for all eternity.

Nothing is eternal, not even time itself.

Anything that is possible is actually reality, given infinity.

When one achieves immortality, one must find purpose beyond the struggle to live

Since we all go to the same place in the end, the moments we spent with each other are the only things that do matter.

He'd had a year to think about what to say. And if he failed, he'd have an eternity to think about what he'd done wrong.

He visto el final, y lo he oído nombrar. La Noche de las Penas, la Verdadera Desolación. La Tormenta Eterna." Recogido el 1 de Nanes, año 1172, 15 segundos antes de la muerte. El sujeto era un joven ojos oscuros de origen desconocido.

I feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years.

DeWarenne men love forever

Would I dance with you? Both forever and rather die. / It would be like dying, yes. Yes I would.