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Quotes About Eternity

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
~ Mike Tyson
You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Everything passes away - suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
One day we took each other by the hand and went for a walk in the evening. And we walked like that for our whole life.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
Each second that goes by, we're all one second closer to the rest of our lives and our deaths.
~ Mildred D. Taylor
There will always be a difference between God and human beings. The gap between us is not merely a moral and spiritual disparity which originated with the fall. It is metaphysical, stemming from creation. Even when redeemed and glorified, we will still be his human creatures. We will never become God.
~ Unknown
Vampire fans read the vampire not as death but as possibility
~ Unknown
Time comes not from the ground but from the underground. Time belongs to Satan; he carries it like a skein in the pocket of the devil, unravels it when his mysterious economies do dictate, and it should be wrested away from him. For, if one can ask and receive eternity from God, then we can take the opposite of eternity --time-- only from Satan...
~ Milorad Pavi?
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is here forever dead.
~ Milorad Pavi?
Tenecki smelled smoke, cursed, and thought: -Never enough time for eternity!!
~ Milorad Pavi?
From the moment Tatsuo was born, she had been filled with grief and self-doubt because she was never good enough. Even though she had failed, being a mother was eternal; a part of her life wouldn't end with her death.
~ Min Jin Lee
Aunque había fracasado, ser madre era eterno; era una parte de su vida que no terminaría con su muerte.
~ Min Jin Lee
I once heard somebody express surprise that instead of following it onward one should not take a cut across Time to secure a moment which, stretching out in line with oneself, would last indefinitely.
~ Mina Loy
And "Immortality" mildews ... in the museums of the moon
~ Mina Loy
I will miss her dearly, and I hope that she is up in heaven right now watching us and smiling, even though deep down I know that if there is an afterlife, she's a pretty much open-and-shut case for hell.
~ Mindy Kaling
Doesn't the expansiveness of this make you think of the good Lord? Except we know the ocean ends while He goes on forever.
~ Unknown
In my mind I believe that her love for him still exists and that it will continue on for a thousand years, or into eternity.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
Death is not an ending. It is a transformation. Death is the threshold of this life. Beyond it is something else, some mystery.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Death is not an ending. It is a transformation.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Your life is a creation that dies when you die. Release
~ Ming-Dao Deng
It lasts, and will last forever, because God loves it. Everything that is has its being through the love of God.
~ Unknown
I felt like I could do this forever, because nothing mattered more than anything else.
~ Miranda July