Quotes about Eternity
Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.
— Maya Angelou
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.
— Mark Twain
In this life, Satan, but in another? We shall meet in another, surely? Then, all tranquilly and soberly, he made the strange answer, There is no other.
— Mark Twain
Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?
— Mark Twain
It is my prayer, it is my longing, that we may pass from this life together—a longing which shall never perish from the earth, but shall have place in the heart of every wife that loves, until the end of time; and it shall be called by my name.
— Mark Twain
The first time the Deity came down to earth, he brought life and death; when he came the second time, he brought hell.
— Mark Twain
Dogs go to heaven.
— Mark Twain
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I hope you can find some consolation from Christianity's affirmation that death is not the end. Death is not a period that ends the great sentence of life, but a comma that punctuates it to more lofty significance. Death is not a blind alley that leads the human race into a state of nothingness, but an open door which leads man into life eternal.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.
— Arthur Schopenhauer