Quotes About Eternity

There's a theory," said Myrna. "Not sure if it's Buddhist or Taoist or what, that says that there are certain people we meet time and again, in different lifetimes.

There had been aeons when other Things ruled on the earth, and They had had great cities. Remains of Them, he said the deathless Chinamen had told him, were still be found as Cyclopean stones on islands in the Pacific. They all died vast epochs of time before men came, but there were arts which could revive Them when the stars had come round again to the right positions in the cycle of eternity. They had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought Their images with Them.

Everything mortal has moments immortal, Swift and God-gifted, immeasurably bright.

Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides Into the silent hollow of the past; What is there that abides To make the next age better for the last?

Past and present commingle: Eternity in the single blink of an eye!

Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.

The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.

Beach girls now, beach girls tomorrow, beach girls till the end of time.

once inserted into the cosmos, once his individual life is set going in harmony with the cosmic order, the wise man understands that we simple mortals are merely a fragment of this whole, an atom of eternity, so to speak, one element of a totality that cannot disappear. So that, ultimately, for the sage, death ceases to be truly real. In a nutshell, death is but a passage from one state to another—and, considered as such, it should no longer hold any terrors for us.

Toda luna, todo año, todo día, todo viento camino, y pasa también. También, toda sangre llega al lugar de su quietud. (Libros de Chilam Balam)

Not lost, but gone before.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.

When immortal Death has taken mortal life.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

Nothing can be created from nothing.

Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal--that is clear.

O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.

Maybe it was true that only beauty would save the world, or truth, or some other high-flown garbage; but fear was still more powerful than anything else. Fear destroyed everything: everything born of beauty, the tender shoots of all that was fine, wise, eternal...

She can raise from the tomb those of whom she speaks or writes, and make them live forever.

Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]

The belief in the immortality of man is the belief in the divinity of man[.]