Quotes About Eternity

Let's do it right. This is for the ages.

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and amongst those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

The concept of hell and endless torment is popular with those who believe they aren't headed there.

Inde fernut, titidem qui vivere debeat annos, corpre de patrio parvum phenica renasci' It's from Ovid. It means, 'A little phoenix is born anew from the father's body, fated to live the same number of years.

Australian aborigines have the oldest continuous culture in history, dating back almost 60,000 years. In their mythology, there was a time before humans that stretched back into eternity.

Time was, time will be again.

Time entered the small and tightly bounded universe and gave all things a past out of which they had come, a present through which they were passing, and a future toward which they were progressing. All things. Except himself.

All things. Except himself. He had only present. There was no past to direct him toward a future. There was no remembering of a time before. Before?

Why then had he no past before he found the word cold in his mouth? He squatted down on the poor warped floorboards, shivering, rubbing himself for warmth, trying to remember. For a long time he squatted like a bird, for birds have no past or future but only an eternal present.

He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.

Platonist view of mathematical ideas: that mathematical truths 'really' exist, but they do so in an ideal form in some sort of parallel reality, which has always existed and always will.

This is one of my fave Quotes 1 year, 12 months, 363 days, 8760 hours, 525600minuts, 3153600 seconds, every day, every night, every time, I always miss you.

Saying of the Prophet Sleep Sleep is the brother of death.

The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning

Epitafio de Jalaludin Rumi Cuando estemos muertos, no busques nuestra tumba en la tierra, mas encuéntrala en el corazón de los hombres.

Continuously, in commemoration of the Friend We drank wine, even before the creation of the vine.

El Sufismo es el hacer en esta vida lo que cualquier tonto estará haciendo dentro de diez mil años.

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

Before garden, vine or grape was in the world," writes one, "our soul was drunken with immortal wine.

Antes de que el huerto, el vino o la uva estuviese en el mundo, nuestra alma estaba borracha de vino inmortal

Detto del Profeta Dormire Il sonno è il fratello della morte.

De qué te sirve ganar el mundo, si al final pierdes tu alma?

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

even before trees rocks I was nothing when I'm dead nowhere I'll be nothing