Tracy K. Smith Quotes

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Immortality is the negation of death. We do not usually speak about 'innatality' - about having not yet been born - yet this is something we would have to regard as the other aspect of the human soul. We are just as unborn as we are immortal.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

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.

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

We die, and we do not die.

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

You live you die and death not ends it.

There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

But that's the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to carve a new road, a new track. Just a few minutes, and the void is kept at bay. You will live forever with that new road inside of you, stretching away to a place suggested, barely, on the horizon. For the shortest time, shorter than the shortest second's breath, you get to stand up to infinity. But eventually, and always, infinity wins.

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

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

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 will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.