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Quotes About Eternity

this whale carries the everlasting mail!
~ Herman Melville
Oh, grassy glades! oh ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye,—though long parched by the dead drought of the earthly life,— in ye, men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning clover; and for some few fleeting moments, feel the cool dew of the life immortal on them. Would to God these blessed calms would last. But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm.
~ Herman Melville
Oh God! that man should be a thing for immortal souls to sieve through!
~ Herman Melville
La meditación y el agua están emparejadas para siempre.
~ Herman Melville
eternal blue noon;
~ Herman Melville
Wherefore, for all these things, we account the whale immortal in his species, however perishable in his individuality. He
~ Herman Melville
for immortality is but ubiquity in time);
~ Herman Melville
Tanr? yard?mc?n olsun ihtiyar adam, düÅŸüncelerinle içinde bir mahluk yaratm??s?n. Derin derin düÅŸünerek bir Prometheus'a dönüÅŸenin yüreÄŸini sonsuza dek bir akbaba yer ve o akbaba da bizzat yaratt??? mahluktur.
~ Herman Melville
Sí, como todos saben, la meditación y el agua están emparejadas para siempre.
~ Herman Melville
He swam the seas before the continents broke water; he once swam over the site of the Tuileries, and Windsor Castle, and the Kremlin. In Noah's flood he despised Noah's Ark; and if ever the world is to be again flooded, like the Netherlands, to kill off its rats, then the eternal whale will still survive, and rearing upon the topmost crest of the equatorial flood, spout his frothed defiance to the skies.
~ Herman Melville
And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last revelation, which only an author from the dead could adequately tell.
~ Herman Melville
Even death may prove unreal at last and stoics be astounded into heaven. Then keep thy heart, though yet but ill-resigned, Clarel, thy heart, the issues there but mind. That like the crocus budding through the snow, that like a swimmer rising from the deep, that like a burning secret which doth go. Even from the bosom that would hoard and keep, emerge thou mayst from the last whelming sea and prove that death but routs life into victory.
~ Herman Melville
All the prophecy of Israel turns on one simple but extremely effective idea: namely that all Israel, living and dead, from Sinai to the present hour, stands in its relation to God as a single immortal individual.
~ Herman Wouk
The purpose is to prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time...
~ Herodotus
The reason the Dead do not return nowadays is the boredom of it.
~ Hilaire Belloc
But... When it comes to you... I want to believe in forever.
~ Hinako Ashihara
Immortals are never alien to one another.
~ Homer
B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.
~ Homer
Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.
~ Homer
Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.
~ Homer
down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates and past the Land of Dreams, and soon they reached the fields of asphodel where the dead, the burnt-out wraiths of mortals make their home
~ Homer
But humans cannot stay awake forever; immortal gods have set a proper time for everything that mortals do on earth.
~ Homer
Ama kaç?? yok ecelden, zaman? geldiÄŸinde her insan, en sevgili kullar bile göçüp giderler bu dünyadan.
~ Homeros
Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks.
~ Howard Mansfield