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Quotes About Eternity

Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.
~ William Shakespeare
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
~ William Shakespeare
His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.
~ William Shakespeare
o, never shall sun that morrow see
~ William Shakespeare
More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before: The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past
~ William Shakespeare
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
~ William Shakespeare
And my poor fool is hanged. No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life And thou no breath at all? O thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never.
~ William Shakespeare
There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave
~ William Shakespeare
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
~ William Shakespeare
Come, Lady, die to live.
~ William Shakespeare
I commend my soul into the hands of God, my Creator, hoping and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ, my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting.
~ William Shakespeare
Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.
~ William Shakespeare
When the devout religion of mine eye Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires, And these, who, often drowned, could never die, Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars! One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.
~ William Shakespeare
Nay, pray you, seek no color for your going, But bid farewell and go. When you sued staying, Then was the time for words. No going then! Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent, none our parts so poor But was a race of heaven. They are so still, Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world, Art turned the greatest liar.
~ William Shakespeare
This might be the be-all and end-all here, but here, upon this bank and shoal of time, we'd jump the life to come
~ William Shakespeare
Say a day without the ever.
~ William Shakespeare
And whether we shall meet again, I know not. Therefore our everlasting farewell take. Forever and forever farewell, Cassius. If we do meet again, why we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.
~ William Shakespeare
Your part in her you could not keep from death, But heaven keeps his part in eternal life. The most you sought was her promotion; For 'twas your heaven she should be advanced: And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself? O, in this love, you love your child so ill, That you run mad, seeing that she is well: She's not well married that lives married long; But she's best married that dies married young.
~ William Shakespeare
Lay her i' the earth; And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring!
~ William Shakespeare
keep eternal springtime on thy face
~ William Shakespeare
And graves have yawned and yielded up their dead. Fierce
~ William Shakespeare
Pero, ¿cómo es que eso aún vive en tu mente? ¿Qué más ves en el oscuro fondo y abismo del tiempo? (Próspero)
~ William Shakespeare
Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink. Which will be soon, and then the dark, and then be done with this ugliness...
~ William Styron
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be...
~ William Wordsworth