H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

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

That when we live no more, We may live ever

In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that all of us live forever is to assert a manifest falsehood, the flat contrary of a universally known truth: namely, the truth that all human beings are mortal. For when, after some disaster, the 'dead' and the 'survivors' have both been listed, what logical space remains for a third category?

There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

I shall not completely die.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.

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

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

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

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

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

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

I would hate to be immortal forever.

I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over there, I will be over there. I am not religious, but I am spiritual, honey. My day is coming!

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

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.