Quotes About Eternity

The essence and value of the law lies in its stability and durability (...), in its "relative eternity." Only then does the legislator's self-limitation and the independence of the law-bound judge find an anchor. The experiences of the French Revolution showed how an unleashed pouvoir législatif could generate a legislative orgy.

I'll not forget that day nor the message of the Christian church that we celebrate each death as an Easter, each dying as a living, each soul, no matter how poor or sinful, as the child of royalty. At its best, the church treats people as beings of eternal worth, no less at their dying than at their birth, no less in their sins than in their virtue, no less for one than for another.

Just as you were beside Jesus, you are still beside us to accompany us to eternal life, to teach us to be small and poor in our work, humble and hidden in life, courageous in trial, faithful in prayer, ardent in love.

The future has an ancient heart.

Because everything that begins must end. What causes us to suffer is not in the past or the future: it is here, now, in our memory, in our expectations. We long for timelessness, we endure the passing of time: we suffer time. Time is suffering.

We inhabit time as fish live in water. Our being is being in time.

How long is forever?" asks Alice. "Sometimes, just one second," replies the White Rabbit. There are dreams lasting an instant in which everything seems frozen for an eternity.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction made between past, present and future is nothing more than a persistent, stubborn illusion." Illusion

Time, as Aristotle suggested, is the measure of change;

Every day countless people die, and yet those who remain live as if they were immortals.

Time is our ignorance.

The mystery of time has always troubled us, stirring deep emotions. So deep as to have nourished philosophies and religions.

It is in order to escape this anxiety that we have imagined the existence of "eternity," a strange world outside of time that we would like to be inhabited by gods, by a God, or by immortal souls.

There is no preferred direction of time without heat.

There is not one single time; there is a vast multitude of them.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENS?

Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe. Our very soul itself is only one such small example.

Time is a strange thing. When we don't need it, it is nothing. Then suddenly, there is nothing else. It is everywhere around us. Also, within us. It seeps into our faces. It seeps into the mirror, runs through my temples. Between you and I it runs silently like an hourglass.

Universe, vast universe, my heart is vaster.

na vista do amor às almas eterno é tudo aquilo que vive uma fração de segundo mas com tamanha intensidade que se petrifica e nenhuma força o resgata

Amor é cada dia Outro sem deixar de ser o Antigo, e são muitos outros concentrados e não compendiados na potencialidade de amar. Assim sendo, recomendo e requeiro e decreto que todos os dias do ano sejam Dias do Amor, e não mais disso ou daquilo, como erradamente se convencionou e precisa ser corrigido. Tenho dito. Cumpra-se." Carlos Drummond de Andrade, in 'O Poder Ultrajovem

Happiness includes all numbers. It's infinite and eternal.

Who knows from the outside where death grows?

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.