For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.
The first requisite for immortality is death.
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.