#eternity

Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#eternity #death

So this is it. Match point for eternity. ↗

— Boris Becker

#match #point

Those who loved with all their heart and mind and might have always thought of death, and those who knew the endless nights of harrowing concern for others have longed for it. The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worthwhile and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die." (The Faith of a Heretic) ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#creativity #death #eternity #love #walter-kaufmann

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#dividing #domain #eternity #hope #part

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#eternity #go #into #life #only

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. ↗

— William Barclay

#determines #eternity #importance #life

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#catholic #certain #certain way #death #die

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#cross #drama #ends #enter #eternity

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

#brethren #eternity #ever #first #gave

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#capable #dignity #eternity #glimpse #important