Quotes about Eternity
I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.
— Sojourner Truth
Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.--
— Robert Murray McCheyne
Yet some there be that by due steps aspire to lay their just hands on that golden key that opens the palace of Eternity. To such my errand is.
— John Milton
La promesa de la inmortalidad basta para poner en pie una religión.
— Elias Canetti
Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself
— Elie Wiesel
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.
— Elie Wiesel
Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going.
— Elie Wiesel
He who doesn't forget God isn't cold in his grave," she said. "What keeps him warm?" I insisted. Her thin voice had become like a whisper: it was a secret. "God himself.
— Elie Wiesel
Stripped of their property, crushed and mutilated, they still embody the nobility of Israel and the eternity of God, while their enemy—who is your enemy as well—embodies all that is most vile in man. I shall act not as their detractor, but as their melitz yosher, their intercessor.
— Elie Wiesel
You walk out in the evening with a woman, you tell her that she is beautiful and you love her, and twenty centuries hear what you are saying.
— Elie Wiesel
And throughout those evenings a conviction grew in me that [he] would draw me with him into eternity, into that time where question and answer would become one.
— Elie Wiesel
We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.
— Elisabeth Elliot