Quotes About Eternity

A woman is told by her doctor that she has six months to live. "Is there anything I can do?" she asks. "Yes, there is," the doctor replies. "You could marry a tax accountant." "How will that help my illness?" the woman asks. "Oh, it won't help your illness," says the doctor, "but it will make that six months seem like an eternity!

The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world; the Teachings spoken over countless ages can all be expounded in a single word.

Those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature have never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep-toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them the consequent associations are of God the Creator, they are His undefiled works; and the mind is cast into contemplation of eternal things.

Whilst I stood, a solemn wind began to blow—the most mournful that ear ever heard. Mournful! That is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept the fields of mortality for a thousand centuries. Many times since, upon a summer day, when the sun is at its hottest, I have heard the same wind arising and uttering the same hollow, solemn, Memnonian, but saintly swell: it is in this world the one sole audible symbol of eternity.

If she lived, doubtless we must have been sometimes in search of each other, at the very same moment, through the mighty labyrinths of London; perhaps, even within a few feet of each other - a barrier no wider in a London street, often amounting in the end to a separation for eternity!

in everything we do in this life we are making ourselves the kind of persons we shall be for all eternity: loving or hateful, egocentric or outgoing, fulfilled or frustrated, beautiful or ugly, ecstatically delighted or utterly miserable.

Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.

We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

The two most mysterious things in our lives are birth and death. They are both miraculous events; one brings shiny, brand new life into the world, and the other snuffs it out like that. That person isn't there anymore.

I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

The Bible says that as Christians we don't grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven - but we still grieve.

They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.

God, he suddenly understood was love in its purest form...

We will find each other again, and maybe the stars will have changed, and we will not only love each other in that time, but for all the times we've had before.

It is a contradiction-this creek- a hundred thousand years old but renewed with each rainfall.

La razón por la que nos duele tanto separarnos es porque nuestras almas están enlazadas. Quizá siempre lo han estado y siempre lo estarán, quizás hemos vivido cientos de vidas antes que esta, y en cada una de ellas nos hemos encontrado.

Knowing that he didn't love her simply in the here and now but that he would never stop loving her.

Cuando sus labios sellaron los míos, supe que podría vivir hasta cumplir los cien años y visitar todos los países del mundo, pero que nada se podría comparar con ese preciso instante, cuando, por primera vez, besé a la chica de mis sueños y supe que mi amor por ella nunca tendría fin,,

Au trecut patruzeci de ani si pastrez inca vie in mintea mea ziua aceea. Se poate sa fiu mai batran si mai intelept, este posibil sa fi trait o alta viata, dar stiu ca atunci cand imi va veni ceasul, amintirile din ziua aceea vor fi ultimele imagini care mi se vor perinda prin minte. Inca o iubesc si nu mi-am scos niciodata inelul de pe deget. In toti acesti ani, n-am simtit niciodata dorinta sa o fac.

Nadie ha erigido un monumento en mi honor y mi nombre pronto caerá en el olvido, pero he amado a una persona con toda el alma, y con eso me basta.