“You stand on the edge of eternity, with a vista that is so incredible, so powerful, so perfect that it's overwhelming. You are so overwhelmed - you no longer exist.” PerfectPowerfulAwarenessBuddhismEternityIncrediblesEdgesOverwhelmingOverwhelmedVistas Author:Frederick Lenz
“dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary in which the overdriven mind and nerves may take refuge, a country on the outer edge of this confusion, bright with the shadow of eternity beyond.” MindMayCountryDreamShadowEternityEdgesConfusionNervesRefugeSanctuaryCowardlyActual Life Book:Fantastic Traveller Source: Fantastic Traveller
“Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity.” MayBookGraceHonorFameRedEternityBreathsEdgesSpiteEndeavorHuntsDisgraceTombsHeirsBrazenDevouringScythes Author:William Shakespeare
“Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow?” MenFeelsYearsLongI CanMomentsWaitingWaterGoneSeaStandingEternityInfiniteGlassesEdgesTinyShipsHorizonWarningLong AgoTransparentWait For HimScanningStanding On The Edge Book:The Time Traveler's Wife Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits. I've swallowed three hooks and am still hungry. Hence the howls. What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but strech out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for eternity.” KnowsLongStillsJoyThreeHeavenWaterLinesForeverGoes OnCreaturesEssentialsEternityEdgesHungryChosenHookPlagueBeing ThereHowlRacks Author:Samuel Beckett
“Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time...When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.” HeartSoulMomentsAbilityGreatnessEternityEdgesTeaRitualFragmentsSmall ThingsAbility To See Author:Muriel Barbery
“But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over the edge of the world. For love is always more than a little strange here...It is in the world, but is not altogether of it. It is of eternity. It takes us there when it most holds us here.” WorldFeelsLittlesLastsForceSinLove IsVirtueStrangeEternityEdgesCrowdsSooner Or LaterOver The EdgeAlone In LoveEdge Of The World Author:Wendell Berry
“[Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason - and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and the mind is free to just experience. Magic is a window to eternity.” PeopleMindReasonMomentsMagicWindowEternityEdgesGuidesCollapse Author:Patrick Martin