Quotes About Eternity

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

The house appointed for all living.

Is but the threshold of eternity.

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.

Hell is indefinite.

The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.

Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

To turn our hearts to our fathers is to search out the names of our deceased ancestors and to perform the saving ordinances in the temple for them. This will forge a continuous chain between us and our forefathers eventually all the way back to Father Adam and Mother Eve.

The core of the Jesus message is what has made him relevant for twenty centuries.

I want to be a part of films that will be watched even after twenty years.

I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend.

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old? That depends. On what? On how I want to feel.

Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.

Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.

The spirit world wants us to know there's more to this life.

If we're honest with ourselves, most people want to know that there's more to this life, there's more after this life.

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.