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Quotes About Eternity

My principal flowers will be trees. Because when you plant trees, you're entitled to believe you'll live forever. So
~ James A. Michener
That's the thing about time travel — you're always moving forward, even when you go back.
~ James A. Owen
head; Yet heeds he not, for him they cannot slay Who stands whence earth and time and space are fled. Sheltered by deathless love, what fear hath he? Armored in changeless Truth, what can he know Of loss and gain? Knowing eternity, He moves not whilst the shadows come and go. Call him immortal, call him Truth and Light And splendor of prophetic majesty Who bideth thus amid the powers of night, Clothed with the glory of divinity.
~ James Allen
The facets that resonate with time, even if it's hundreds of years old, will resonate with your work as well. It's like a law of the universe.
~ James Altucher
Time could not be bought. The only coin time accepted was life.
~ James Baldwin
The rebirth of the soul is perpetual; only rebirth every hour could stay the hand of Satan.
~ James Baldwin
Nothing ever goes away
~ James Baldwin
I wish to God I may die if I don't love you. There ain't no sky above us if I don't love you.
~ James Baldwin
He did not wonder. He had once told Esther that if the Lord ever gave him a son he would call him Royal, because the line of the faithful was a royal line — his son would be a royal child. And this she had remembered as she thrust him from her; with what had perhaps been her last breath she had mocked him and his father with this name. She had died, then, hating him; she had carried into eternity a curse on him and his.
~ James Baldwin
It became in his imagination his impossible, lifelong task, his hard trial, like that of a man he had read about somewhere, whose curse it was to push a boulder up a steep hill, only to have the giant who guarded the hill roll the boulder down again—and so on, forever, throughout eternity; he was still out there, that hapless man, somewhere at the other end of the earth, pushing his boulder up the hill.
~ James Baldwin
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock.
~ James Baldwin
Patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.' 
~ James Clavell
reminding himself to remember forever that the pen's a long arm from the grave.
~ James Clavell
Patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.
~ James Clavell
All gods bear witness! The Jade Gate and the One-Eyed Monk are truly yin and yang, truly everlasting, truly godlike, both insatiable however much one consumes the other.
~ James Clavell
What are clouds But an excuse for the sky? What is life But an escape from death?
~ James Clavell
The word of God surpasses earthly orders.
~ James Clavell
Death is preferable?" "I've already written my death poem, Lady: " When I die, don't burn me, don't bury me, just throw my body on a field to fatten some empty-bellied dog. " "That could be arranged. Easily.
~ James Clavell
Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.
~ James Crumley
I didn't care who we were. I required no consummation. I knew that whoever we were and whatever we had would never stop.
~ James Ellroy
The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.
~ James Frey
I am going to die. When I die I will be dead, gone, no more. There will be no more thinking, no more breathing, no more feeling of any kind. There will blackness and the blackness will be eternal. There will be silence and the silence will last forever. I am going to die.
~ James Frey
I don't believe she's in Heaven and I don't believe she's in a better place. She's dead and when we're dead, we're gone. There are no blinding lights, there is no happy music, there are no Angels waiting to greet us.
~ James Frey
He is omnipresent not only virtually but also substantially.… In him all things are contained and move, but he does not act on them nor they on him.… He is always and everywhere.… He is all eye, all ear, all brain, all arm, all force of sensing, of understanding, and of acting.5
~ James Gleick