After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.
~By Joy Page ~
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.
~By Antoine Arnauld ~
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
~By Paul Gauguin ~
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
~By Michael Ende ~
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.
~By Dennis Miller ~
Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.
~By Ardel Wray ~
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
~By Agatha Christie ~
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
~By William Blake ~
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
~By Helen Hayes ~
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.
~By William Ames ~
You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
~By Andres Segovia ~
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
There are tons of people I'd like to freeze for all of eternity, but we won't go into that!
~By Holly Marie Combs ~
I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.
~By Michael Servetus ~
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
~By Sean O'Casey ~
The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
~By Walter Martin ~
A human life is a schooling for eternity.
~By Gottfried Keller ~
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
~By William Blake ~
I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.
~By Philip Levine ~
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
~By Flannery O'Connor ~
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.
~By Thomas Goodwin ~
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
~By Hermann von Helmholtz ~
My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
~By James Otis ~
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
~By Bill Hybels ~
A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
~By Robert Doisneau ~
I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.
~By Keir Dullea ~
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
~By Herman Hesse ~
The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
~By Doug Coupland ~
War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.
~By John Cory ~
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
~By A. E. Housman ~
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
~By William Barclay ~
Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.
~By William Ames ~
But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
~By Helen Hayes ~
The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
~By Don DeLillo ~
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
~By William Blake ~
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
~By Christopher Fry ~
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
~By Eugene Ionesco ~
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
~By Daniel Barenboim ~
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.
~By Rita Dove ~
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
~By Herman Melville ~
Architecture aims at Eternity.
~By Christopher Wren ~
And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires.
~By Elias Hicks ~
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
~By James Broughton ~
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
~By James Huneker ~
My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.
~By Karl Amadeus Hartmann ~
The sum of all sums is eternity.
~By Lucretius ~
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
~By Michael Korda ~
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~By Henry Adams ~
The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
~By Lucinda Franks ~
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.
~By Catherine McAuley ~
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!
~By Max Muller ~
The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
~By Helen Hayes ~
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
So this is it. Match point for eternity.
~By Boris Becker ~
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
~By William Penn ~
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
~By Lester Bangs ~
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
~By Jean Paul ~
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
~By Albert Camus ~
A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
~By Bette Davis ~
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