Quotes About Eternity

The notion that the fulfilment of prayer has been determined from eternity, that it was originally included in the plan of creation, is the empty, absurd fiction of a mechanical mode of thought, which is in absolute contradiction with the nature of religion. Whether God decides on the fulfilment of my prayer now, on the immediate occasion of my offering it, or whether he did decide on it long ago, is the same thing.

Könnt eins doch allweil ein Kind bleiben! Da ist jeder Tag ein ganzes Leben. Nachher schlafst du und fangst wieder ein neues an.

Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours." —LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, the Immortal Beloved Letters

ever thine, ever mine, ever ours

If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.

Inside was my father's wallet, his reading glasses, his wedding ring. Identity, insight, heart: the only things we leave behind.

A song can last long after the events and people in it are dust and dreams and gone.

Si le das el corazón a alguien y luego muere, ¿se lo lleva consigo?

In the darkest crease of the night, that she would love me until the moon lost its footing in the sky.

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever

I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end—they'd reach forever. •

As long as I remembered them, then they were still here.

It's a world of permanence

Jei atiduodi kam nors savo šird?, o tie žmon?s miršta, ar jie nusineša j? su savim? Ar likusi? amžinyb?s dal? praleidi su kiauryme, kurios ne?manoma užpildyti?

speaks. "When you die you die. And everything

Well, as long as someone remembers you, you never really die.

Dying is a misnomer. You're alive, until you're not.

Regardez mon enfant, voyez l'éclat de ses boucles folles et son sourire pareil à un vol de papillon. Un tel visage ne peut pas être celui de quelqu'un qui meurt à petit feu. Je ne la connais que depuis deux ans. Mais si vous preniez chaque souvenir, chaque instant, si vous les étiriez bout à bout, ça ferait une éternité.

he would see this moment forever—one of life's gallery of pictures—

long as someone remembers you, you never really die.

There may or may not be a God, but if there is one, I wouldn't want to have him over for dinner.

You live, you die, they throw you on the compost heap. Then you live again, without the inconvenience of consciousness.