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Quotes About Eternity

Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He imagined that in his estate of eternal night he might somehow have already halved the distance to death. That the transition for him could not be so great for the world was already at some certain distance and if it were not death's terrain he encroached upon in his darkness then whose?
~ Cormac McCarthy
The judge is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Ever's a long time.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He said if he is not the word of God God never spoke (4)
~ Cormac McCarthy
When it stops, you'll know you've heard it all your life.
~ Cormac McCarthy
woman said that was all right. She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time
~ Cormac McCarthy
I suppose it should be a comfort to understand that one cannot be dead forever where there's no forever to be dead in.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time. Once
~ Cormac McCarthy
God) He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He said that that what men do not understand is that what the dead have quit is itself no world but is only the picture of the world in men's hearts. He said that the world cannot be quit for it is eternal in whatever form as are all things within it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
And what do these categories signify? Where did they come from? What does it mean that they are two shades of blue? In my eyes. If music was here before we were, for whom was it here? Schopenhauer says somewhere that if the entire universe should vanish the only thing left would be music.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Will children yet to come harbor a longing for a thing they cannot even name? The legacy of the word is a fragile thing for all its power, but I know where you stand, Squire. I know that there are words spoken by men ages dead that will never leave your heart.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Pe-acest drum nu mai e nici un suflet de om de la care s? auzi vorba Domnului. S-au dus, iar eu am r?mas È™i ei au luat cu ei lumea. Întrebare: prin ce se deosebeÈ™te ce nu va fi niciodat? de ce nu a fost niciodat??
~ Cormac McCarthy
She would talk to him sometimes about God. He tried to talk to God but the best thing was to talk to his father and he did talk to him and he didn't forget. The woman said it was all right. She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Every step you take is forever
~ Cormac McCarthy
The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less. The
~ Cormac McCarthy
It was for us and it will be for others
~ Cormac McCarthy
He said that what men do not understand is that what the dead have quit is itself no world but is also only the picture of the world in men's hearts. He said that the world cannot be quit for it is eternal in whatever form as are all things within it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Aldrig mer är en lång tid. Men pojken visste det han visste. Att aldrig mer inte är någon tid alls.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He raised his face to the paling day. Are you there? he whispered. Will I see you at the last? Have you a neck by which to throttle you? Have you a heart? Damn you eternally have you a soul? Oh God, he whispered. Oh God.
~ Cormac McCarthy
If there was a heaven, was it not founded upon the writhing bodies of the damned?
~ Cormac McCarthy