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Quotes About Eternity

Those who survived lived forever with that echo of what was gone sounding inside their heads.
~ J.D. Robb
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, you can hear them echoing forever within the second sphere.
~ J.M. Coetzee
We are accustomed to believe that our world was created by God speaking the Word; but I ask, may it not rather be that he wrote it, wrote a Word so long we have yet to come to the end of it? May it not be that God continually writes the world, the world and all that is in it?
~ J.M. Coetzee
When death cuts all other links, there remains the name. Baptism: the union of a soul with a name, the name it will carry into eternity.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Those into whose lives you are born do not pass away.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Qué quieres decir con eso de "si no hay otras vidas"? –¿Si se terminan las vidas y los números, y todo lo demás? ¿Quién seré si me muero y punto? –
~ J.M. Coetzee
Navikli smo da verujemo kako je ovaj naš svet stvorio Bog izrekavši Re?; ali sad pitam, zar ne bi moglo biti da ga je ispisao, ispisao re? tako duga?ku da tek treba da dospemo do njenog kraja? Nije li mogu?e da Bog neprekidno ispisuje svet, kako svet tako i sve što je u njemu?
~ J.M. Coetzee
Estás conmigo, pero no de la misma forma que estás en América, no cuando estabas cuando te marchaste, sino estando de una forma profunda e inmutable: como el amado, como ese que no muere. Es a tu alma a quien me dirijo, igual que será mi alma la que se quedará contigo cuando esta carta termine
~ J.M. Coetzee
Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.
~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
We can tell this story without the help of the Devil, if it makes you more comfortable. Consider the story of the Greek Titan Prometheus. Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and gave it to mankind. As a punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock and he had his liver eaten out by a giant eagle. Then the liver grew back, and the eagle feasted again. In this way Prometheus was tortured for eternity. All of which illustrates a profound truth, which is that Gods are bastards.
~ J.M.R. Higgs
many atheists embrace Jesus as having been a great teacher, and yet he's the one who had the most to say about hell.
~ J.P. Moreland
No one will go to hell simply because all they needed was a little more time and they died prematurely.
~ J.P. Moreland
When God is making these judgements, his purpose is not to keep as many people out of hell as possible. His goal is to get as many people into heaven as possible.
~ J.P. Moreland
people in heaven will not be denied the privilege of enjoying their life just because they're consciously aware of hell. If they couldn't, then hell would have veto power over heaven.
~ J.P. Moreland
You must understand that in the afterlife, our personalities reflect an adult situation anyway, so we can say for sure that there will be no children in hell.
~ J.P. Moreland
Then you would hold me up, wouldn't you. He traced over her features with his fingertips. And as he did, for some strange reason, he felt the arms of infinity wrapping around them both, holding them close... linking them forever. Yes, he mouthed. I would hold you up. I will ever hold you up and hold you dear, lover mine.
~ J.R. Ward
I'm going to love you so good and so long you're gonna be convinced no earthly thing could have brought us together
~ J.R. Ward
Time keeps on... slippin'... slippin'... slippin' into the future.
~ J.R. Ward
I love you. It was the tie that bound, even across the divides of death and time.
~ J.R. Ward
Vampire porn does not go out of style.
~ J.R. Ward
Time keeps on...slippin'...slippin'...slippin' into the future, Adrian drawled as he walked around
~ J.R. Ward
Without time," the angel said, "you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity." "FYI, philosophy bores me." "Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.
~ J.R. Ward
Am I going to have to die first before I come here every time? Because no offense, but for fuck's sake, I can just give you a cell phone to call.
~ J.R. Ward
I am praying for your eternal soul. Don't bother. Come on, don't you want to go to Heaven? I wouldn't know anyone up there. And don't get too prissy with that religious bullshit, true? I don't want to spend an eternity without you, so you need to come to Dhunhd with me. Will they have milk duds there? yes, but they'll all be melted together. And we'll be surrounded by Yankees fans, televangelists, and no booze. We'll think of some way to pass the time. We always do.
~ J.R. Ward