Quotes About Eternity

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.

Mio padre possedeva sicurezze incrollabili su certe faccende inerenti all'universo. Per lui, tutte le cose buone – dalle trote alla salute eterna – derivavano dalla grazia, e la grazia dall'arte, e l'arte non è una cosa facile.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

This business of living for eternity certainly contributed to capital punishment, brutality, and war.

Where, in what cemetery of the heavens, did the tender words of lovers rest when they loved no longer?

This business of living for eternity certainly contributed to capital punishment, brutality, and war. Why, Brigham Young with his countless wives pining on the vine had the gall to state that if you discovered one of your women in adultery, it would behoove you as a good and Christian act to hold her on your lap and run a knife through her breast. That way she'd have her whack at the hereafter.

I think the falls represented death for the taking, but a particular death, one that would be quick but also make you part of something magnificent and eternal, an eternal mechanism. This was not in the same league as throwing yourself under some filthy bus.

El amor es intensidad y por esto es una distensión del tiempo: estira los minutos y los alarga como siglos.

Pues apenas el tiempo se divide en ayer, hoy y mañana, en horas, minutos y segundos, el hombre cesa de ser uno con el tiempo, cesa de coincidir con el fluir de la realidad.

The past reappears because it is a hidden present.

it becomes clear that chronometric time is a homogeneous succession lacking all particularity. It is always the same, always indifferent to pleasure or pain. Mythological time, on the other hand, is impregnated with all the particulars of our lives: it is as long as eternity or as short as a breath, ominous or propitious, fecund or sterile.

oh life to live, life already lived, time that comes back in a swell of sea, time that recedes without turning its head, the past is not past, it is still passing by, flowing silently into the next vanishing moment

El amor no es eternidad; tampoco es el tiempo sucesivo...Es la percepción instantánea de todos los tiempos en uno solo, de todas las vidas en un instante. ¿Qué ve la pareja, en el espacio de un parpadeo? La identidad de la aparición y la desaparición, la verdad del cuerpo y del no-cuerpo, la visión de la presencia que se disuelve en un esplendor; vivacidad pura, latido del tiempo.

Light is time reflecting on time.

Die ewige Gegenwart der Götter

Die Nähe des Todes schafft eine Atmosphäre die das Außergewöhnliche begünstigt (und über die conditio humana hinauswachsen lässt)

la pasión no nos regala la eternidad sino la vivacidad, ese minuto en que se entreabren las puertas del tiempo y el espacio.

El amor) No nos regala la eternidad sino la vivacidad, ese minuto en el que se entreabren las puertas del tiempo y del espacio: aquí es allá y ahora es siempre.

Tal vez lo "eterno" sea esto: el mirarse, el ser mirado, el mirar. La chispa, la llamarada, la claridad, la luz de los ojos que preguntan, desean, contemplan, comprenden. Ver: iluminar, iluminarse.

He has seen and felt how solemn a thing it was to approach the gate of death, to enter the presence of God; and from that awful point of vision, he has contemplated the world, and life, and human responsibility, as they are; and he has come back like a spirit from another sphere, clothed with all the solemnities of eternity; to live now as one soon in reality to be there.

Time teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity.

I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.

or a saint who had spent all his years preparing for his grand entry into heaven, only to discover on his deathbed that heaven was not some blue expanse full of angelic string quartets and opalescent clouds, but an eternity granted for reliving one's happiest moments, and that he had none to remember;