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Quotes About Eternity

They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.
~ Saint Augustine
If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death - and I believe that it will be - then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.
~ Jane Roberts
Death is usually an all-or-nothing thing!
~ Dan Brown
Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?
~ Eugene Ionesco
... the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.
~ Billy Graham
Death is very, very terminal.
~ David Lange
I shall not altogether die.
~ Horace
Art is a protest against death.
~ Audrey Flack
He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.
~ David Strathairn
I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
~ Val Kilmer
That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Most things may never happen: this one will.
~ Unknown
Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.
~ Unknown
Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts
Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.
~ Shan Sa, Empress
Kylie looked up towards the sky. "Sometimes I just wish Heaven wasn't so far away.
~ C.C. Hunter, Taken at Dusk
And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
death should be celebrated...when you put something in the ground you always know where it is
~ Tea Obreht
Death is just infinity closing in.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.
~ John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
Death, thou shalt die.
~ John Donne
Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
~ Alexander Pope
Death's long anabasis.
~ Allen Tate