Eternity Quote by Sophocles Download Open image “We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.” — Sophocles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eternity Life Little time Littles Please Time
We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward circumstances of… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
It is so much easier to grieve for the dead than to care for the living. At least in death we are all perfect. — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . .… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things:… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and… — Christopher Leach Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I believe in forever, and that’s what you and I are. We define eternity. This may sound cheesy, but you make me go there.… — Gail McHugh Copy Share Image
“Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet.” — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Heaven? Floating about with everyone you ever knew for eternity? Me family does me 'ed in after one day at xmas, I'd rather be… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
