Eternity Quotes

My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

Each thing that exists remains forever, and that very existence of existence is proof of its eternity. But without that realization, which is the knowledge of perfect being, man would never know whether there was existence or non-existence. If eternal existence is altered, then it must become more beautiful; and if it disappears, it must return with more sublime image; and if it sleeps, it must dream of a better awakening, for it is ever greater upon its rebirth.

Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

Read not the Times, read the Eternities.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.

O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

Every moment is an eternity in itself. Bliss is the present moment and each and everyone of us needs to understand this.

I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are, and always have been, the best thing in my life

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,Live regist'red upon our brazen tombsAnd then grace us in the disgrace of death;When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,Th' endeavor of this present breath may buyThat honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edgeAnd make us heirs of all eternity.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin. . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom.

And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.

That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.

Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.

The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself.

Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.

I know I am deathless…We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.

A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.

[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.

The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.

I look into your eyes & see the universe not yet born.

A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.

Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.

Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever.

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But,there,The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love.

There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.

If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change.

There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent. Though moving, it is always still. When we try to catch it, it seems to run away, and yet it is always here and there is no escape from it. And when we turn around to find the self which knows this moment, we find that it has vanished like the past.