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“Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.”
― Morrie Schwartz

“Sticking to one person for a lifetime is not a waste of time or lack of better ones, it means you've found your place of eternity.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“I'd rather be not the light in your life
The bright day might make me obscure
I'd rather be the cold darkness
For it remains, unseen, uncertain and unsure”
― Sanhita Baruah, The Farewell and other poems

“C.S. Lewis in his second letter to me at Oxford, asked how it was that I, as a product of a materialistic universe, was not at home there. 'Do fish complain of the sea for being wet? Or if they did, would that fact itself not strongly suggest that they had not always been, or would not always be, purely aquatic creatures? Then, if we complain of time and take such joy in the seemingly timeless moment, what does that suggest? It suggests that we have not always been or will not always be purely temporal creatures. It suggests that we were created for eternity. Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed by it--how fast it goes, how slowly it goes, how much of it is gone. Where, we cry, has the time gone? We aren't adapted to it, not at home in it. If that is so, it may appear as a proof, or at least a powerful suggestion, that eternity exists and is our home.”
― Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

“I knew why love was always described with eternity. A single minute stretched out for lifetimes.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Death Before Daylight

“I have a thing for things that last.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

“I am sure that I am in possession of a soul that is at the very least, a thousand years old. And I say this not on a whim; I say this as someone who is sure of something, who is not thinking fancifully but who is thinking solidly and fully. So why is it that I am childlike and playful? There is only one answer to this, and that is, after existing for a very long time, one learns the skill of retaining childlikeness and the state of childlikeness, which is called playfulness. The immature are not childlike and they are not playful; rather, they are manipulative and insecure. Manipulation is the game of the immature and insecurity is their state of being. I’m saying this because I want to draw the great distinction in the sand very clearly. The older your soul becomes, the more childlike it will be in texture. But we only make playtime out of small and joyful things; there is no playtime when it comes to bravery, honesty, and trust.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“---on her best days, she glimpses the limitless span of millennia behind her: millions of years, tens of millions.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“A righteous God isn't bound by time. He has an eternity to make things right.”
― Shannon Dittemore, Angel Eyes

“Man, when he is re-born, passes through the ages as he who is born; and the preceding state is always as an egg in respect to the subsequent one, thus he is continually conceived and born: and this not only when he lives in the world, but also when he comes into another life to eternity: and still when he cannot be further perfected, then to be as an egg to those things which remain to be manifested, which are indefinite.”
― Emanuel Swedenborg

“I've played Romeo for Juliet
(But in depth)
It's vignettes of silhouettes
(And then read)
And watched Russian roulette, yeah red Soviet
Yet doing it simultaneously
While dropping down shed oubliettes
Turned around and took truth to the head that
Love is the ugliest thing too beautiful for death”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“The inside of the Trace Italian, of course, does not exist. A player can get close enough to see it: it shines in the new deserts of Kansas, gleaming in the sun or starkly rising from the winter cold. The rock walls that protect it meet in points around it, one giving way to another, for days on end. But the dungeons into which you'll fall as you work through the pathways to its gates number in the low hundreds, and if you actually get into the entry hall, there are a few hundred more sub-dungeons before you'll actually reach somewhere that's truly safe. Technically, it's possible to get to the last room in the final chamber of the Trace Italian, but no one will ever do it. No one will ever live that long.”
― John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van

“When all seems hopeless and all has gone silent, that’s Destiny turning down the music so that all may hear our response to life’s great storms, giving our response the chance to echo throughout eternity with the level of greatness it deserves.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

“I think about the pepper plant, the corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, and more plants. And I've noticed that while those seeds are living within the fruit or vegetable they can not grow. It is only when those seeds have died, that they can be planted and grow. And, I can relate this same process to the human body. In order to grow and thrive in the spirit, you must die to the flesh. Meaning, You have to rid your mind and body of toxic negative worldly things in order to grow and develop more spiritually.”
― Amaka Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny

“Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. When the ball of steel is rubbed away by the friction, eternity will not even have begun.”
― David Lodge, The Picturegoers

“But what you’re calling poetry is what everything is. It’s not even poetry �� it’s seeing. These materialists are blind. You told me they say space is infinite. Where do they see that in space?��

And I, disconcerted: “But don’t you think of space as infinite? Can’t you conceive of space as infinite?��

“I don’t conceive of anything as being infinite. How could I conceive of anything as being infinite?��

“But, man,�� I said, “Imagine space. Beyond that space is more space, and beyond that more, and then more, and more... It never ends...��

“Why?�� asked my master Caeiro.”
― Álvaro de Campos

“If you want to be immortal, don't ever think about retirement.”
― Toba Beta

“Immortality can be soon achieved by using technology.
The real issue is, "are humans compatible with eternity?”
― Toba Beta

“Need for immortality should be added on top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.”
― Toba Beta

“Writing.
Is it a way to be remembered,
or a need to become immortal?”
― Toba Beta

“With God, all things are possible- including, dominating adulthood, swimming upstream for life, and living in light of eternity in a world that tells you all you can do is live for the moment.”
― Katie Kiesler, Because I Love You

“I want to see life through a spiritual perspective, so I can make choices that influence eternity.”
― Alisa Hope Wagner

“I came to England weak in body, and, in consequence of much study, as I suppose, I was taken ill on May 15, and was soon, at least in my own estimation, apparently beyond recovery. The weaker I became in body, the happier I was in spirit. Never in my whole life had I seen myself so vile, so guilty, so altogether what I ought not to have been, as at this time. It was as if every sin of which I had been guilty was brought to my remembrance; but at the same time I could realize that all my sins were completely forgiven—that I was washed and made clean, completely clean, in the blood of Jesus. The result of this was great peace. I longed exceedingly to depart and be with Christ. When my medical attendant came to see me, my prayer was something like this: “Lord, Thou knowest that he does not know what is for my real welfare, therefore do Thou direct him.�� When I took my medicine, my hearty prayer each time was something like this: “Lord, Thou knowest that this medicine is in itself nothing, no more than as if I were to take a little water. Now please, O Lord, to let it produce the effect which is for my real welfare, and for Thy glory. Let me either be taken soon to Thyself, or let me be soon restored; let me be ill for a longer time, and then taken to Thyself, or let me be ill for a longer time, and then restored. O Lord, do with me as seemeth Thee best!”
― George Müller, Autobiography of George Müller: A million and a half answers to prayer

“Eternity is the end of the end.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“God can only show you eternity if you are willing to let go completely of the now.”
― Sean Patrick Brennan, The Papal Visitor

“Is any life so isolated that it lives only in the past and not in the present and future, too?”
― Jackson Burnett, The Past Never Ends

“Jesus died on the cross not only so I wouldn't have to go to hell, but also to give me an abundant life on this Earth.”
― Perry Noble, Overwhelmed: Winning the War against Worry