Quotes About Eternity

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

The span of life is waning fast; Beware, unthinking youth, beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!

Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.

Tomorrow never yet On any human being rose or set.

All kings, and all their favourites, All glory of honours, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes time, as they pass, Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This no to-morrow hath, nor yesterday; Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

Sleep - kinsman thou to death and trance and madness.

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

World without end.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more - the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.

O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again...

The day which we fear as our last is but the birth-day of our eternity; and it is the only way to it.

"There's no such thing as death" — In nature, nothing dies; From each sad remnant of decay Some forms of life arise. The faded leaf that falls All sere and brown to earth, Ere long will mingle with the shapes That give the floweret birth.

Thank God, there is no such thing as ambition in that blessed world above the stars...

Truly there is no such thing as finality.

Time goes but does not come back.

All that can be said with truth of this Absolute and Supreme Reality is that IT IS. This must suffice.

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

As a robot I could have lived forever. But I tell you all today I would rather die a man, than live for all eternity as a machine.

There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

But misfortunes do not last forever (this they have in common with joys) but pass away or are at least diminished and become lost in oblivion. Life on the kapia always renews itself despite everything and the bridge does not change with the years or with the centuries or with the most painful turns in human affairs. All these pass over it, even as the unquiet waters pass beneath its smooth and perfect arches.

U mraku vidim kako ti o?i sjaju, a kad nam se lica dotaknu i tvoj dah ukrsti sa mojim, ja osetim sve godine naše ljubavi sažete u jedan jedini tren, i znam samo da postojimo ti i ja, ali pretopljeni na silnoj vatri naše duge, tajne i tajanstvene ljubavi, i pomešani nerazdvojno, zauvek. -

But one thing could not happen; it could not be that great and wise men of exalted soul who would raise lasting buildings for the love of God, so that the world should be more beautiful and man live in it better and more easily, should everywhere and for all time vanish from this earth. Should they too vanish, it would mean that the love of God was extinguished and had disappeared from the world. That could not be.

Great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their life work disappears.

A most je i dalje stajao, onakav kakav je oduvek bio, sa svojom ve?itom mladoš?u savršene zamisli i dobrih i velikih ljudskih dela koja ne znaju šta je starenje ni promena i koja, bar tako izgleda, ne dele sudbinu prolaznih stvari ovoga sveta.