Quotes About Eternity

it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly.

28. Comment j'aimerais mourir. — Meilleur et aimé. 29. État présent de mon

Carus Amicus Mussaeus, Ah! Quod tempus, bonus Deus, Landerirette Imbre sumus perituri. And La Moussaye reassures him with: Securae sunt nostrae vitae Sumus enim Sodomitae Igne tantum perituri Landeriri.

The Papacy, we are told, reckons by centuries, and indeed may perhaps not bother to reckon time at all, since its goal is in eternity.

Doubtless my books, like my fleshly being, would, some day, die. But one must resign oneself to death. One accepts the thought that one will die in ten years and one's books in a hundred. Eternal duration is no more promised to works than to men.

Let's hope that when we are dead things will be better arranged.

Victor Hugo, ?öyle der: Çimenler uzamal?, çocuklar ölmeli mutlaka. Ben diyorum ki, sanat?n ac?mas?z yasas? uyar?nca, insanlar?n, kendimizin, ?st?rab?n her türünü tatt?ktan sonra ölmesi gerekir ki, unutu?un de?il, ebedî hayat?n çimleri, verimli eserlerin gür otlar? uzas?n, gelecek nesiller ne?e içinde, alt?nda uyuyanlara ald?rmadan gelip "k?rda yemek"lerini yiyebilsinler.

Bir insan öldükten sonra, e?er sanatç?ysa ve eserine kendinden bir ?eyler katm??sa, o insan?n bir parças?n?n ya?amaya devam edebilece?i söylenir bazen. Belki ayn? ?ekilde, bir insandan al?n?p ba?ka bir insan?n kalbine a??lanan sürgün de, al?nd??? insan yok olduktan sonra bile ya?amaya devam eder.

Of a different order again were those of M. de Charlus, as we shall presently see, with people wholly unlike Mme. de Villeparisis. In spite of which we must bear in mind that the opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk, are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

And perhaps the resurrection of the soul after death is to be conceived as a phenomenon of memory.

Men who believe that their work will last—as was the case with Elstir—form the habit of placing that work in a period when they themselves will have crumbled into dust. And thus, by obliging them to reflect on their own extinction, the thought of fame saddens them because it is inseparable from the thought of death

Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange and new to you.

Il invoquait le jour où la sphère divine se gonflerait, après toutes les transformations des âmes. Car le monde que nous connaissons est l'oeuvre de la haine, et sa dissolution sera l'oeuvre de l'amour.

Ninoska mi sorrise come non potrebbe mai fare un uomo, come se le donne capissero tutto le une delle altre, dall'eternità.

Vas a vivir siempre joven, según la teoría de Denevi. Decime, ¿sabés quién es Marco Denevi?

Pero el despertador, privado de cuerda durante tantos días, ya no señala el tiempo, señala la eternidad.

Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting.

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.

He (God) remembers that we are but shadows and dust, therefore what we do in this life echoes in eternity.

Some things are rushing into existence, others out of it. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity. We find ourselves in a river. Which of the things around us should we value when none of them can offer a firm foothold? Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it's gone.

Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.

Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.