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Quotes About Eternity

Death is the only reality, for it is the only certainty, inevitable to all things.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Heaven is being in the land of the living. Hell is when you die and you are in a hole in the ground. No one gets a pass on death."
~ Unknown
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
~ Unknown
Eternity alone can reveal to the human race its debt of gratitude to the peerless and immortal name of Washington.
~ James A. Garfield
Only the rocks live forever, Gray Wolf said.
~ James A. Michener
It was his opinion that a man had to wait until he was dead to know the meaning of God, unless he happened to have known the sea in his youth.
~ James A. Michener
That——that butterfly has got more of God in him than Jackson will ever see for the rest of eternity.
~ James Agee
Once upon a time it was now.
~ James Alexander Thom
He wanted to tell them of the stars. Of the lovers in their hellish graves.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
No es el amor quien muere, Somos nosotros mismos.
~ Unknown
Nada significamos como individuos. Nada como unidad. Formamos parte de un todo indivisible y eterno.
~ Unknown
If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.
~ Luke Davies
Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.
~ Unknown
105 years old: she wouldn't be alive today even if she hadn't died.
~ Lydia Davis
This was why she could not sleep. She could not say the day was over. She had no sense that any day was ever over.
~ Lydia Davis
The evidence of death is before my eyes constantly. Moving from me outward. My death always a step in advance. The world is a mirror of myself dying. The world not dying anymore than I die. I more alive a hundred years from now. Than at this very moment.
~ Lydia Lunch
A morte combina muito com latim, não tem coisa que combine tanto com latim como a morte.
~ Unknown
Infinitamente. Eu poderia ficar repetindo infinitamente infinitamente. Uma simples palavra que se estende por rios, montes, vales infinitamente compridos como os braços de Deus. As palavras.
~ Unknown
Marriages are made in heaven though consummated on Earth.
~ Unknown
The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.
~ Unknown
He who would see God must use the faculty with which God is seen; and if he would do this, he must let men who are rich in the faculty which perceives the invisible, — which looks not at the things which are seen and are temporal, but at the things which are not seen and are eternal, — guide, teach, inspire him.
~ Lyman Abbott
Before Christ brought life and immortality to light, death was the slayer of man's hopes. It left love alive, but love without hope is poignant sorrow.
~ Lyman Abbott
Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you--thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children.
~ Lyman Abbott
For the man who does not want God of course will not find him; and the man who is busy searching for something else will not find God; and certainly the man who has coined the atrophy of faculty into a philosophy that the Eternal and the Invisible cannot be seen or known, cannot see or know.
~ Lyman Abbott