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Quotes About Eternity

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Best advice was from a man by the name of James Dean. "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today". I read that my senior year in high school and have never stopped since.
~ Kelly Blatz
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
~ Alphonse Karr
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
~ Jean Paul
You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?
~ J. K. Rowling
Everyman and every living being have the same birth day: The birthday of the universe is our real birthday!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.
~ Debbie Reynolds
Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
~ Mark Twain
The Buddhist teachings tell us that over the course of many lifetimes all beings have been our mothers. At one time, all these
~ Pema Chodron
A good book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Ein gutes Buch ist der kostbare Lebenssaft eines meisterlichen Geistes, einbalsamiert und aufbewahrt zum Zweck eines Lebens über das Leben hinaus (...)
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Cuando llegas al final de tu vida y ves como te acercas a la eternidad, lo unico que importa es que hayas querido de todo corazon a tus seres queridos, nada mas.
~ Unknown
Time and the universe lie around in our minds. We are sleeping histories of the world.
~ Penelope Lively
Matt knew only that he must see her again, and forever.
~ Penelope Lively
He sees that time is what we live in, but that it is also what we carry within us. Time is then, but it is also our own perpetual now.
~ Penelope Lively
Lisa does not think about possible outcomes because a a world in whcih Claudia is not cannot be imagined. Claudia simply is, ever has been and always will be.
~ Penelope Lively
Sixty-seven-year-old Claudia, on a pavement awash with packaged American matrons, crying not in grief but in wonder that nothing is ever lost, that everything can be retrieved, that a lifetime is not linear but instant. That, inside the head, everything happens at once.
~ Penelope Lively
In life there is nothing more than life, in death nothing more than death: we are being born and dying at every moment.
~ Unknown
I'm older than Time and Space because I'm conscious.
~ Unknown
Truly Time is a vast Denful of Horrour, round about which a Serpent winds and in the winding bites itself by the Tail. Now, now is the Hour, every Hour, every part of an Hour, every Moment, which in its end does begin again and never ceases to end: a beginning continuing, always ending.
~ Peter Ackroyd
The air itself is one vast library, on whose pages are for ever written all that man has ever said or woman whispered.
~ Peter Ackroyd
the Gulphe in which truth lies is bottomless and it will wash over whatever is thrown into it.
~ Peter Ackroyd
This was a serious matter. No one was permitted to engage in business with Hunne. He would be without company, because no one would wish to be seen with an excommunicate. He would also of course be assigned to the fires of damnation for eternity.
~ Peter Ackroyd
We are alive on the very brink of eternity.
~ Peter Carey