Quotes About Eternity

Myths are intended to break the spell of time and release us from the immediate pressures and limitations of daily life.

In mythic terms, the earth is a place of mystery and wonder where life always hangs by a thread and all the events of history are loosely stitched upon the endless loom of eternity. Secretly, we are each tied to the divine.

In mythic terms, the earth is a place of mystery and wonder where life always hangs by a thread and all the events of history are loosely stitched upon the endless loom of eternity. Secretly, we are each tied to the divine. Human awareness was thought to be the extra element in creation, able at times to help tip the scales toward renewal.

Tonight, I want very much to believe that there's a heaven, that death is not a full stop, and that we will all see one another again.

After this night is over, then you can drift away, they you can sleep for ever, for nothing will ever matter again.

and a line from Emily Dickinson that had been running through my head for months: "Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

God is not He who is, but That which is.

In essence, they predict that science, not religion, will guarantee us an afterlife.

you can do nothing to stop the ocean or the sky from what it will do.

You hold an eternal soul in your hands. You cannot afford to give in to weariness, indifference, laziness, or careless neglect. God chose you two as the parents of these children! It is now your responsibility to determine what level of understanding your child possesses and to hold him accountable at that level.

There are stranger seas, you see, than the seven on which we sail. There are greater oceans than the five we have named. There are seas of infinity and oceans of eternity, and their salt is the bitterest brine that creation can contain. The dreams you know are but phantoms . . . ghosts with no more substance than rhyme or reason . . . but there are dreams of the flesh, Mr. Holmes. I have done nothing of which I need to be ashamed, and yet . . . I cannot help but dream.

Theoretically, there is no end to the trail of squares cut out of a continually resurrecting golden rectangle, seducing the squares forever onward.

She died early the next morning, her hand in mine, as the sun flooded through her window and the light in those luminous eyes of hers faded away forever.

We only part to meet again.

The two that are one, the one that is all!

Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?

I am not talking about immortality now," Perenelle said, her Breton accent thickening. "We have lived for centuries, Nicholas, centuries. I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.

And we die together." He smiled softly. "I would prefer that. I do not want to live in this world?or any other world, for that matter?without you.

Saracen The Knight: There will be a cost. Saint-Germain: Anything. I will pay anything to get my wife back. Saracen: Even your immortality? Saint-Germain: Even that. What's the point in living forever, when it is not with the woman I love?

That is the curse of immortality: to watch the world change, to see everything you know wither.

What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?

In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that enormous, unanswerable question.

There ought to be more than just that metallic end, and then silence, then the worms, and sometimes he believed, but just this moment he did not believe at all...there was nothing beyond the sound of the guns...not even silence, just an end.

In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that last enormous, unanswerable question.