Quotes About Eternity

Every day he thought would last forever, and the night forever, and the dawn drag eternally another long and empty day to light forever; yet they sped away, the day, the night...

One thing—one thing exceeds the eternity of the star, he cries, and that is the dark which surrounds it.

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?

Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills

Words are the only things that last for ever.

The tomb lies at the end of every path. Only the soul is immortal. Guard this treasure well. Your decaying husk is but a temporary vessel on an endless voyage.

That love, which fails of perfect utterance here, Lives on to fill the heavenly atmosphere With its immortal song.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

Or in the words of Tennyson: There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O, earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

To every created thing God has given a tongue that proclaims a future life.

Garden as though you will live forever.

They're never far from us, you know." "Who?" I asked. "The dead. No more'n a breath. You let that last one go and you're with them again.

The dead. No more'n a breath. You let that last one go and you're with them again.

I was born along with the sun and earth and moon and planets and all the stars. Every atom of my being was there at the very beginning.

Since I first entered this world, what awaits has always been before me. If I turn this way or that, it is still there, waiting, more patient than any human being.

Like the beads of that bracelet, all things are connected. The past, the present, the future. One long, beautiful work from the hand of Kitchimanidoo. You, me, those who have gone before us, and those who come after, we are all connected in that creation. No one is ever truly lost to us.

They're never far from us, you know. ... The dead. No more'n a breath. You let the last one go and you're with them again.

Before he'd shoved off in his canoe, he'd said, "We don't die. In the things we pass on to our children, we go on living.

there would be no sign that Molly Nurmi had ever been. In the time before the cold science of the whites came to Iron Lake, the Anishinaabe believed the water was bottomless. There was a tradition among the Iron Lake Ojibwe. Before they were married, a couple would take strands of their hair and braid a cord. On the day they were wed, they tied the cord around a stone, canoed to the middle of the lake, and dropped the stone into the water. The stone descended forever, they believed

As I walked away he called to me and when I turned back he said, "They're never far from us, you know." "Who?" I asked. "The dead. No more'n a breath. You let that last one go and you're with them again.