#eternity

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. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#beauty #constant #constants #eternal #eternity

It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#away #cast #christ #could #death

As soon as he was gone, we opened, "Baucis and Philemon." An elderly couple living in a cottage, they're granted a wish by Jove. They confer in private before Philemon asks, "May one hour take us both away; let neither outlive the other." The wish is granted. I said, "Simultaneous deaths? Why didn't they wish for eternal happiness instead? What else would anyone wish for?" "They did wish for that," answered Jamie. ↗

— David Guterson

#love #wish #death

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#eternity #every #moment #tragedy

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. ↗

— Herman Melville

#eternity #her #hope #loose #perishable

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ambition #among #aphorism #book #does

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker. ↗

— William Ames

#creature #eternity #exists #god #maker

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#feeling #i #i do #speak #want

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#cannot #changed #death #eternity #every

Life is a very narrow bridge between two eternities. Be not afraid. Rabbi Nachman of Braslav ↗

— Nachman Cohen

#life