#eternity

A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul! ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#kiss #love #love

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#born #child #different #different world #elapsed

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#eternity #into #man #pass

The past embraces the future The future embraces the past They are both intertwined Linked in all eternity ↗

— Karen Hackel

#future #living #new-age #past #time

But what doesn’t die is the love we give to others. There is no end to that. ↗

— Gloria Whelan

#lasting #love #courage

Les enseñaron que por un instante de dolor permanecerían intactas en la eternidad. Sin embargo sus corazones deseaban seguir latiendo allí: en ese mundo donde nada era puro, pero todo era bello. ↗

— Liliana Bodoc

#eternity #pure #beauty

While we watched without comprehension, she moved away to where none of us wanted to follow. Ruth May shrank back through the narrow passage between this brief fabric of light and all the rest of what there is for us: the long waiting. Now she will wait the rest of the time. It will be exactly as long as the time that passed before she was born. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#eternity #light #death

When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#forever #moment #now #death

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. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#eternity #mind #mystery #wisdom #dreams

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#heaven #life #experience