“Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.” IfsFeelsYearsGodFeelingsHumanityExistenceShareOceanHundredDignityEternityCeaseChainsBarriersEgotismMomentary Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.” IfsWorldBelieveHeartChildrenFormDiesGrowsBornThis WorldLessonsEternityCeaseCreeds Book:The Nemesis of Faith Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.” ChildrenNightEternityCease Author:Richard Henry Stoddard
“Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.” IfsThinkingDoeStatesSeemsWould BeWishDarkExistenceForeverAtheismEternityPositive AtheismEndlessCeaseRelief Author:Emily Dickinson
“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.” BrotherPhotographyEternityPhotographerPhotographNostalgiaCeaseInstantLooking BackCaptured Author:Brigitte Bardot
“For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like a plot of land. To work her, plow her under, rain down a dreadful poison upon her. Miraculously, it causes these girls to grow. They elongate on the pale slender stalks of their longing, like sunflowers with heavy heads. You can shield them with your body and soul, trying to absorb that awful rain, but they'll still move toward him. Without cease they'll bend to his light.” WayTryingHas BeensStillsSoulBodyLightMovingGirlFatherGrowsCausesLandDaughterRainEternityLongingHeavyYour BodyCeaseAwfulPoisonPlotPaleShieldsStalkingSlenderSunflowerYour Body And Soul Book:The Poisonwood Bible Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.” LastsPastTimeEternalSummerEternityWinterCeaseWheelsLast TimeFreezeRest In PeaceRevolving Author:Petrarch
“If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.” IfsIdeasRealEndsMatterMomentsFormLawDeathSimpleAnimalExistencePrinciplesDyingDestructionEternityTransformationDenyCeasePassagesBeing RealAnnihilationTransmutation Author:Marquis de Sade
“Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events, from the world, from its pain. Timeless, eternal.” WorldSelfPainTimeEventsEternalEternityCeaseAll TimeTimelessCentreFaded Book:Betrayal Source: Betrayal
“We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.” IfsShouldLyingFatherBearsBirthEternalEternityCeaseCelebrate Author:Meister Eckhart