All Quotes By Tag: Eternity

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”

“Know that if you open the lock to my heart with the key that I have given you, that it will remain there for all eternity.”

“A lasting happiness cannot be attained by seeking temporary happiness.”

“Even the snow melts, let alone the frugal regards of a soul confident in its own eternity.”

“Happiness,… even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.”

“The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation… When it came, the fortuante person’s life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity.Eternity ended ten years ago.”

“Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.”

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.”

“Let us each take up our flaming torches and mount as the blazing fireballs of light that we are and let’s burn the skies and leave it with deep scars and let them be our signatures upon eternity as we go forth!”

“Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise?Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means.And I don’t mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes.True beauty grips your gut and squeezes your lungs, and makes you see with utmost clarity exactly what is before you.True wisdom then steps in, to interpret, illuminate, and form a life-altering insight.”

“Mortal minds are always unsettled by eternal things; they want to catch the infinite and nail it down to something finite. Impossible!”

“In death, when our physicality is stripped away and our essence released to join the eternal song of creation, there is no sin or offense, no judgment or worry.”

“When we say it is the whole story, the cross tells us that death is only half the story. And it is by far the least compelling half.”

“If I take this imagination of mine and multiply it a thousand times over, even then I have yet to touch even the barest hem of heaven.”