Quotes About Eternity

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Real are the dreams of gods, and soothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever.

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity...

O aching time! O moments big as years!

If I am destined to be happy with you here -- how short is the longest Life.

Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!

How horrid was the chance of slipping into the ground instead of into your arms -- the difference is amazing Love. Death must come at last; Man must die, as Shallow says; but before that is my fate I fain would try what more pleasures than you have given, so sweet a creature as you can give.

My dear girl, I love you ever and ever and without reserve.

Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft swell and fall, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon to death.

How long is this posthumous life of mine to last?

This is a mere matter of the moment. I think I shall be among the English poets after my death.

They too seemed permanent and never-changing, an untouched unreachable world high in space...

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.

And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion?

EFFECT OF A TRUE TEACHER GOES UP TO ETERNITY THROUGH HIS STUDENTS.

The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

When you push against the boundaries of experience into the twilight of the unknown, the Lord will strengthen you. The beauty of your eternal soul will begin to unfold.

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].

Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi.

There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death.

Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that.