Quotes About Eternity

Here, as elsewhere, the gain of creation consists always in the growth of individual minds, which live and aspire, as flowers bloom and birds sing, in the midst of morasses; and in the continual development of that thought, the thought of human destiny, which is given to eternity adequately to express, and which ages of failure only seemingly impede.

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

My child, I don't know where people go when they die, but I know where they stay.

Tu ancora ami il mio cuore?" "Sempre. Sempre te per sempre." "Non pensi che sono cambiata, che sono peggiore? Pavida, gretta, stretta ai miei golfini, ai miei passi rachitici." "Penso che profumi di un odore che mi piacerà sempre.

Ne vem, h?erka moja, kam gredo ljudje, ki umrejo, vem le, kje ostanejo.

We are because God is

God," he said, "is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

So dark. Endless darkness, eternal. It was not the absence of light that was so frightening as the absence of thought, of knowledge, of comprehension. Our lives, the lives of the living will go on. The sun shines, the moons rise, we will laugh and talk, and he will know nothing, feel nothing. Nothing. So final. It will come to us all. It will come to me.

It's a long time that I've loved you. Never, never go away.

Life is nice and round," he continued reflectively. "No beginning. No ending. I am now arrived at an age when you, my children, will carry on for me.

I have said before, says the Soul, that I lack nothing, because my beloved has from all time sufficient, 2 out of his just nobility, and will have enough for evermore. What then should I lack? I do not love myself, or him, or his works, 3 except only for him. And what he has, which I do not have and shall not have, is more my own than what I do and shall have in my possession from him himself.

Eternity is a long time and it doesn't always work out that way," Jareth says, a bit bitterly. "It's worse to love someone and then lose them, then to never love at all.

There's more than one path to immortality.

Forever isn't always something one would choose, given all the information.

Quiet. My body melted heavily into the chair; I heard a cart go up the street. The room grew suddenly big with meaning. Something was about to happen, was happening: each object in the room seemed perfect of its kind, its kind being just its one self. The moment split into Eternity and I went with it: I had neither skin nor bones, but flowed into the world, sacred along with everything else, and was lost.

God is not moved from His great designs by the prayers of the righteous, how much less does He care for the whinings of the damned!

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Every being is a clock of the universe.

Every being is the universe shed from itself, like a continuous sunrise.

The opposite of death is soul.

To each soul its eternities and its voids.

We are made from clay, water, sun, air, and dream, and we feed on clay, water, air, sun, and dream. We are rains, snows, suns, we are seasons without the right to go back.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.