This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
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 ~
I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.
~By Michael Servetus ~
The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
~By Doug Coupland ~
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 ~
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
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 ~
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 ~
We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
~By Susan Taylor ~
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 ~
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 ~
Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.
~By Ardel Wray ~
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
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 ~
Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.
~By Dante G. Rossetti ~
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
~By James Huneker ~
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
~By William Penn ~
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
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 ~
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
~By Lord Acton ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
~By Agatha Christie ~
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 ~
When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
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 ~
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 ~
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
~By Daniel Barenboim ~
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 ~
War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.
~By John Cory ~
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 ~
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 ~
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
~By John Milton ~
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
~By Paul Gauguin ~
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 ~
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
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 ~
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 ~
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
~By Herman Melville ~
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 ~
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
~By William Blake ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
~By Lester Bangs ~
The sum of all sums is eternity.
~By Lucretius ~
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
~By Michael Korda ~
A human life is a schooling for eternity.
~By Gottfried Keller ~
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 ~
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
~By Albert Camus ~
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
~By William Barclay ~
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
~By James Broughton ~
Architecture aims at Eternity.
~By Christopher Wren ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.
~By James Montgomery ~
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
~By Henry Brooks Adams ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
~By Tom Stoppard ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
~By Sean O'Casey ~
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 ~
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
~By Christopher Fry ~
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 ~
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
~By Hermann von Helmholtz ~
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
~By Andre Bazin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.
~By Antoine Arnauld ~
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