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Quotes About Eternity

Well, these guys believe that if you die in battle, some big fat singing horned women carry you off to a sort of giant feast hall where you gobble yourself silly for the rest of eternity, said the rave. It belched genteeley. Damn stupid idea, really. But it just happened! Still a daft idea.
~ Terry Pratchett
Is it dead?' said Gurder. 'It can't die! It's existed for thousands of years!' Gurder shook his head. 'Sounds like a good reason for dying,' he said.
~ Terry Pratchett
My Lord... what is Death like? called the old man tremulously. When I have investigated it fully, I will let you know, came the faintest of modulations on the breeze. Yes, murmured the Loremaster. A thought struck him. During daylight, please, he added.
~ Terry Pratchett
Susan stared at him. The blue glow in Death's eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked at her gaze so that it was dragged into the eye sockets and into the darkness beyond… …which went on and on, for ever. There was no word for it. Even eternity was a human idea. Giving it a name gave it a length; admittedly, a very long one. But this darkness was what was left when eternity had given up. It was where Death lived. Alone.
~ Terry Pratchett - Soul Music
Every time I pass church I stop and make a visit So when I'm carried in feet first God won't say, Who is it?
~ Terry Ryan
It is not length of life, but depth of life. —Ralph Waldo Emerson For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. —Kahlil Gibran
~ Tess Gerritsen
I am life without boundaries. The decaying of this body does not mean the end of me. I am not limited to this body.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
Death drowns the unsatisfied man, whose restless mind clutches for greater and greater pleasures.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
I don't try to make sense of suffering. I try to make sense of life...I try each day to see God's will...I console myself with the old Negro spiritual, 'Sooner will be done the troubles of this world. I'm going home to live with God.
~ Thea Bowman
Ich spreche nicht gern vom Tod, ich bin für Leben.
~ Theodor Fontane
Chi sa se invece non veniamo veramente da lassù, e, quando qui è finita, non torniamo in cielo, tra le stelle, o ancor più oltre? Non so, non voglio saperlo, lo desidero soltanto.
~ Theodore Fontane
We are that drop in the ocean of the cosmos which contains within itself the entire cosmos. (p. 12)
~ Theodore J. Nottingham
What's freedom for? To know eternity.
~ Theodore Roethke
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood on a mountain-slope, A scent beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory in one man, – A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.
~ Theodore Roethke
I think the dead are tender. Shall we kiss?--
~ Theodore Roethke
Si Bébé, c'est-à-dire le cÅ"ur, le moi, le tabernacle de ce nouvel être, si Bébé pouvait être remplacé, alors l'Homo Gestalt etait immortel.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
Throughout our life we produce energy. We say things and do things, and every thought, every word, and every act carries our signature. What we produce as thoughts, as speech, as action, continues to influence the world, and that is our continuation body. Our actions carry us into the future. We are like stars whose light energy continues to radiate across the cosmos millions of years after they become extinct.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Lev dig in i tanken att du finns i universum och att universum finns i dig. Om universum finns, finns du. Om du finns, finns universum. Det finns ingen födelse. Det finns ingen död.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
nature is truly the nature of no-birth, no-death. There is manifestation, and there is the cessation of manifestation in order to have another manifestation.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
We do not have to die to get to the gates of Heaven.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
We ride on the wave of birth and death, and we are free from birth and death.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
If the wave does not have to die to become water, then we do not have to die to enter the kingdom of God.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
No birth and no death; no being and no nonbeing; no coming and no going; no same and no different
~ Thich Nhat Hanh