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Quotes About Eternity

Las personas -que también son en sí mismas un proceso- tienen miedo de todo lo inestable y mutable. Por eso, imaginaron algo que no existe -la inmutabilidad- y decretaron que todo lo eterno e inmutable es perfecto. Le atribueron la inmutabilidad a Dios. Y de esta forma perdieron la capacidad de comprenderlo
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Drevesom se zdijo ljudje ve?ni - od nekdaj se sprehajajo v senci lip po Široki cesti, niso ne negibni ne v gibanju. Za drevesa ljudje obstajajo ve?no, toda to je tako, kot da ne bi nikoli obstajali.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Mensen denken dat ze intenser leven dan dieren, dan planten en zeker dan dingen. Dieren vermoeden dat ze intenser leven dan planten en dingen. Planten dromen dat ze intenser leven dan dingen. En dingen duren voort en in dat voortduren zit meer leven dan in al het andere.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
j'ai pris conscience que ce qui est en mouvement – en dépit de ses dangers – sera toujours meilleur que ce qui est immobile, et que le changement sera toujours quelque chose de plus noble que l'invariance ; car ce qui stagne est voué inévitablement à la dégénérescence, à la décomposition et, en fin de compte, au néant, alors que tout ce qui évolue saura durer, et même éternellement.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Opening his eyes, gazing at the vastness above, below, and all around, J.D. inquired, "Do you believe in immortality?" as casually as if inquiring if she believed in free trade. "I don't know. Do you?" "I don't know either. I want terribly to believe that there's a chance for such happiness as this to be carried on somehow, somewhere, if not in this life, then in the next.
~ Unknown
Only the young die good.
~ Oliver Herford
immortality is that's the telling of stories in the remember.
~ Oliver Jeffers
e.g. the sky looks the same at midnight on the 1st of October as it does at 10 p.m. on the 1st of November.
~ Oliver Lodge
Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nada ansío de nada, mientras dura el instante de eternidad que es todo, cuando no quiero nada.
~ Unknown
This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.
~ Omar Khayyam
The eternity of "anytime" shines in this moment "now" while the unlimitedness of "anyplace" is manifested in the limits of "here." When the universality of "anyone" dances out in the individual "I," for the first time you have the world of Zen.
~ Unknown
Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.
~ Orhan Pamuk
the world changes and remains the same.
~ Oriana Fallaci
Dünya deÄŸiÅŸir, ve hep ayn? kal?r.
~ Oriana Fallaci
Christ reigns in order to save." (Hom. in Luc. 30)
~ Origen
Religion explains how it is possible to relate to the dead who still live. It says little about how ordinary people should relate to the living who are dead.
~ Unknown
As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
~ Orson Scott Card
As Simone Weil and others have established beyond question, only someone in touch with the eternal can hope to be eternally relevant—and faithful too.
~ Os Guinness
My unhappiness was the happiness of a person who could not say no. I had been intimidated by the fear that if I declined something offered me, a yawning crevice would open between the other person's heart and myself which could never be mended through all eternity.
~ Osamu Dazai
Me? Are you kidding? I'm going to Hell.
~ Osamu Dazai
What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.
~ Osamu Tezuka
In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
~ Osbert Sitwell