Franz Kafka Quotes

We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original in the anger; the eternal nature is its root.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.

The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.

There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing of things as they should have been, you are letting truth into history. You are the word of God.

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!

Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.

In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless.

This World is not Conclusion. A Sequel stands beyond- Invisible, as Music- But positive, as Sound.

If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?

In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.

Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply "today."

We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.