Quotes About Eternity

Long ago, Louis Wu had stood at the void edge of Mount Lookitthat. The Long Fall River, on that world, ends in the tallest waterfall in known space. Louis's eyes had followed it down as far as they could penetrate the void mist. The featureless white of the void itself had grasped at his mind, and Louis Wu, half hypnotized, had sworn to live forever. How else could he see all there was to see? Now he reaffirmed that decision.

The statement in Daniel 12:1-4 (NRSV) that "many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt" is usually cited as the earliest clear expression of this hope in the Bible.

I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.

Kuolema riistää meiltä ihmisen kokonaan ja antaa hänet meille kokonaan.

Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.

Birth is the beginning where all part. Death is the beginning where they meet.

There is a sense of timelessness when you have lived many years. You forget for a moment that it must all come to an end. That in the future, all that we have done will crumble to dust.

La eternidad! —exclamó Bipa con desdén—. ¿De qué te sirve la eternidad si para ello has de renunciar a la vida? Bipa

Como podemos amar, incluso despues de muertos? ¿Como podemos sentir cosas, si no tenemos cuerpos? ------(Kai) -Porque los sentimientos van mucho mas allá de lo material, Kai. ---(Aonia)

Existo en un plano diferente al tuyo, podemos estar eternamente juntos y eternamente separados'' Kai

Se puede saber por qué dura tanto vuestra estúpida guerra? Angelo hace una mueca y responde enigmáticamente: -Pregúntale a Dios.

Ya sabes... «una vida humana no es más que el parpadeo de un dios». Recuerdo, de pronto, mi conversación con Astaroth: «Porque el tiempo que ha pasado contigo es solo un parpadeo comparado con su larga, larguísima vida». Y me duele.

es algo tan importante, tan antiguo e irrevocable como la sucesión de los días y las noches.

Trust the soul above all things, for it is made by the Divine hand and woven with threads of truth, eternity, and light.

You cannot hold eternity in your hand, but you feel it in your heart; you know it in your soul.

your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.

Behind him there's still the mirror…a bit of infinity, which in its disinterest still holds their reflections safely in it.

There, tonight. The eternity of that. Swan logic. Swan history.

They were all around us that day. In the confusion of air. In our strange dreams. In the baggage we'd brought with us and would have to leave. In our fading animal memories: The humming gold of being, and ceasing to be. The exposed motor of eternity.

She is ancientness. She has lived forever. It has driven her insane.

We would never be together in this life again.

Neamh," he murmered. '"Tis Neamh, you are, Olivia.

in the length of time measured by infinity, and in the size of a world measured by countless universes, is it possible to believe that our lives are anything more than a few blades of grass?

between the word and the world lie fading eternities of soon