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Quotes About Eternity

Death... is the natural end and the supernatural beginning.
~ Tom Brown, Jr.
Death is never a clean break — some stardust always remains.
~ Terri Guillemets
Death is not poison but merely life's final remedy.
~ Terri Guillemets
No one ever really dies as long as they took the time to leave us with fond memories.
~ Chris Sorensen
The last breath is as sacred as the first.
~ Terri Guillemets
May every hair of your head be a wax candle to light you into glory, and may you be in heaven ten minutes before the devil knows you are dead.
~ Irish blessing
May you be in heaven twenty years before the devil knows you're dead!
~ Irish blessing
May your soul be in heaven before the devil knows you're dead.
~ Irish blessing
With several of them the game of life is ended and they have gone to bed under the willows. Their lips have taken the sacrament of the dust.
~ T. De Witt Talmage, 1884
Hope follows death. It has to, or death serves no purpose.
~ Terri Guillemets
Death is just — a dash between one life and the next.
~ Terri Guillemets
Our heart dies with us But our soul lives on Born into weightless spirit Becoming colors of the dawn
~ Terri Guillemets
DEATH... To stop sinning suddenly.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Earth has one angel less, and heaven one more...
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Calm on the bosom of thy God, Young spirit! rest thee now...
~ Felicia Hemans, "A Dirge"
...Though much it seems a wonder and a wo That one so loved should be so early lost, And hallowed tears may unforbidden flow To mourn the blossom that we cherished most: Yet all is well; God's good design I see, That where our treasure is, our hearts may be!
~ J. G. Saxe, "Bereavement"
A light is from our household gone, A voice we loved is stilled. A place is vacant at our hearth Which never can be filled; A gentle heart, that throbbed but now With tenderness and love, Has hushed its weary throbbings here, To throb in bliss above...
~ Anonymous, "My Child," 1800s
Farewell, then, — for awhile, farewell — Pride of my heart! It cannot be that long we dwell, Thus torn apart; Time's shadows like the shuttle flee; And dark howe'er life's night may be, Beyond the grave I'll meet with thee...
~ D. M. Moir, "Casa Wappy"
a flower in a scrapbook dried as dry can be but beautiful in its colors a bookmark to eternity
~ Terri Guillemets
Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street — and every one is signed by God's name And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.
~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Don't question God, for He may reply: "If you're so anxious for answers, come up here."
~ Author Unknown
laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
~ E.E. Cummings
There is no timetable for grieving — Grief is a snail It's a shooting star A walk around the lake It's eternity Or frost 'til bloom — Memories coursing through the heart It lasts as many heartbeats as it takes; sometimes all of them.
~ Terri Guillemets
That grief will go on, but the love goes on too.
~ Connie Sigler, 2015