endless being Quotes

Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.

A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality!

Who we are is the part of us that is infinite, the part of us that never stops.

We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too.