Quotes About Eternity

Time passes irrevocably.

Though far away, I will chase you with murky brands and, when chill death has severed soul and body, everywhere my shade shall haunt you.

Now when these souls have trodden the full circle of a thousand years, God call's all of them forth in long procession to the Lethe River, and this he does so that when they again visit the sky's vault they may be without memory, and a wish to re-enter bodily life may dawn.

Death twitches my ear. Live, he says. I am coming.

I seek for myself no joy in life; that would be sin; but only to bring some joy to my son among the shades. (Evander)

Do you believe this is what the dead care about when they are buried in the grave?

her fire whose flame never dies

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

Life stand still here.

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

Talvolta penso che il paradiso sia leggere continuamente, senza fine.

I live; I die; the sea comes over me; it's the blue that lasts.

Leonard, always the years between us, always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.

How fast the stream flows from January to December!

It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures.

Meanwhile, let us abolish the ticking of time's clock with one blow. Come closer.

If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.

The vision of her own personality, of herself as a real everlasting thing, different from anything else, unmergeable, like the sea or the wind, flashed into Rachel's mind, and she became profoundly excited at the thought of living.

The tumult of the present seems like a elegy for past youth and past summers, and there rose in her mind a curious sadness, as if time and eternity showed through skirts and waistcoats, and she saw people passing tragically to destruction.

distant views seemed to outlast by a million years (Lily thought) the gazer and to be communing already with a sky which beholds an earth entirely at rest.

Standing now, apparently transfixed, by the pear tree, impressions poured in upon her of those two men, and to follow her thought was like following a voice which speaks too quickly to be taken down by one's pencil, and the voice was her own voice saying without prompting undeniable, everlasting, contradictory things, so that even the fissures and humps on the bark of the pear tree were irrevocably fixed there for eternity.