Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
~By Lord Acton ~
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
~By Agatha Christie ~
When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
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 ~
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
~By Albert Camus ~
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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 ~
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
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 ~
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 ~
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~By Henry Adams ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
~By Doug Coupland ~
You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
~By Andres Segovia ~
Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.
~By James Montgomery ~
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Architecture aims at Eternity.
~By Christopher Wren ~
A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
~By Hermann von Helmholtz ~
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
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 ~
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
~By William Blake ~
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 ~
I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
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 ~
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
~By John Milton ~
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
~By Lester Bangs ~
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 ~
Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.
~By Dante G. Rossetti ~
Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.
~By Ardel Wray ~
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 ~
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
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 ~
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
~By Andre Bazin ~
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
~By Michael Korda ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
A human life is a schooling for eternity.
~By Gottfried Keller ~
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
~By Henry Brooks Adams ~
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 ~
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
~By Theodore Parker ~
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 ~
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
~By Edvard Munch ~
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
~By William Penn ~
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.
~By Karl Amadeus Hartmann ~
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
~By Groucho Marx ~
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 ~
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
~By William Barclay ~
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 ~
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
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 ~
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 ~
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
~By Christopher Fry ~
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 ~
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
~By James Huneker ~
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 ~
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
~By William Blake ~
No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.
~By Frederic William Farrar ~
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
~By Herman Melville ~
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 ~
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 ~
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
~By Paul Gauguin ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
~By Daniel Barenboim ~
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 ~
Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
~By Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~
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 ~
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 ~
War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.
~By John Cory ~
We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
~By Susan Taylor ~
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 ~
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 ~
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
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 ~
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
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 ~
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 ~
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