top of page
Exlpore more Eternity quotes

"Understanding what it means to die, to sever oneself of the foolish hope for immortality, is what allows human beings the capability to appreciate simple pleasures and endure whatever hardships living a full life requires. Eternity is beautiful whereas time is unredeemable and problematic. Our faith, our hopes, and our love exist only in points of time. We discover eternity by avoiding the snares of prejudice and mental delusion, using the memory of whole civilizations to understand the past, and employing human consciousness to transcend fluctuations in time."

"During Life, we cultivate relationships by spending days with others.During eternity, we cultivate relationships by spending lifetimes with others."

"If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity."

"Just as the world spun us into existence, it will spin on long after we are gone."

"Time couldn't kill me a century ago, and it won't in all the centuries ahead. I am the Philosophy that has been there since the birth of human intellect. And I shall live on forever through the inner cosmos of billions of generations, yet to come, while enriching every single soul it touches with its ever-glowing and flourishing purity."

"I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak."
Explore more quotes by Andres Segovia


"When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists."


"When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work."


"Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man."


"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice."


"Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart."


"The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees."
bottom of page