Quotes About Eternity

Time is an illusion that only makes us pant.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity – it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it...

Of the river of time, he worries neither about its spring nor its delta.

There is in human nature a hunger and a thirst for the transcendent and the divine which cannot be satisfied with anything less than God.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

When all the world dissolves,And every creature shall be purified,All places shall be hell that is not Heaven.

Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,And then thou must be damned perpetually!Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven,That time may cease, and midnight never come.

Things that are not at all, are never lost.

Make me immortal with a kiss.

Hell is just a frame of mind.

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike

If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death.

Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!

Everywhere, as we go about our small business, we must discern the fingerprints of the gigantic plan, the orderly and inexorable routine with neither beginning nor end, in which death is but a preface to another birth, and birth the certain forerunner of another death.

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, "That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed.

No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.

Most of all I grieve for my soul because even though I do, finally, believe there is a God, and that I have met him, I do not know if he has given me an immortal soul, but only one that was to last me as long as my body lasted. I do not know if when the last page of my book is closed, that will be the end of me.

To aspire to life forever would be to acquire living at the expense of life.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

You didn't always have to give it back. And in that cold, somber chapel, Dan Kelly discovered that there were some things that you could not be forgiven for, and those were the things that you carried into the next life, if there was such a place; and if there was no next life nor any God, the consequence was the same: if you were not forgiven, you would die with regret.

Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

The real issues aren't the quarks that hold together our physical bodies. The real issue is our own personal nonlinearity - the real us. We can't see our real selves; we only see the containers we happen to be in right now. The real "us" is software, not hardware, which means it's without mass, which means it has no time. We are eternal - saved or not. That's the problem, because we each have an eternity ahead of us. Where will we spend it?