Quotes About Eternity

Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

The dead have a presence.

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I awake, I pray the popular attend my wake.

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.

Death is release, if you've lived all right.

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

O Death, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange!

Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.

One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.

Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

He that dies this year is quit for the next.

The dead don't bother with particulars.

Death had no lips, but it was smiling

You have all died many times before and none of you look the worse for it.

In the end we just realize there's no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That's what's wonderful about the universe there's no escape from living. Death doesn't even end it.

When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.

Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.

Death is only a summer vacation for us. We don't really change or lose what we have learned or who we have been when we die, because we are our karma.

When you die you forget. Death is a sleep, a forgetting. You forget about your previous lifetime. The essence of your being is the same. But at death, the personality dissolves

Death doesn't change anything. It just gives you a new location. The physical mind dissolves. But the overriding state of mind that you die in is the state of mind that you are born into.

We must constantly remind ourselves that we are eternity, infinite, beyond birth and death.