Seneca the Younger Quotes

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

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

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

I don't like to think of myself as just a person. I don't think I am. I think I existed before, and I think I'll exist again after I die here, so I don't exactly know what I am. I don't think there is ever going to be an answer. I just know that I'm not like you.

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.

I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.