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.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
~By William Blake ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
Architecture aims at Eternity.
~By Christopher Wren ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
~By Albert Camus ~
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.
~By Dante G. Rossetti ~
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~By Henry Adams ~
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 ~
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 ~
I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.
~By Michael Servetus ~
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
~By Lester Bangs ~
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.
~By James Montgomery ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
~By Madame de Stael ~
You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
~By Andres Segovia ~
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 ~
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
~By William Blake ~
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
~By John Milton ~
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 ~
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
~By James Huneker ~
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
~By Lord Acton ~
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 ~
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
~By Andre Bazin ~
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
~By Daniel Barenboim ~
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 ~
I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.
~By Keir Dullea ~
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
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 ~
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
~By Michael Korda ~
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 ~
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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 ~
I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.
~By Clayton Christensen ~
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
~By Herman Melville ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.
~By John Cory ~
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.
~By Karl Amadeus Hartmann ~
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 ~
Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
~By Agnes Smedley ~
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
~By Henry Brooks Adams ~
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
~By James Broughton ~
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.
~By Donald Cargill ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A human life is a schooling for eternity.
~By Gottfried Keller ~
I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
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 ~
We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
~By Al Stewart ~
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
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 ~
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
~By Edvard Munch ~
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
~By William Barclay ~
For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
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 ~
No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.
~By Frederic William Farrar ~
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 ~
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
~By Agatha Christie ~
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 ~
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
~By Susan Taylor ~
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
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 ~
The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
~By Doug Coupland ~
I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.
~By Elfriede Jelinek ~
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 ~
The sum of all sums is eternity.
~By Lucretius ~
A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
~By Hermann von Helmholtz ~
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
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