Eternity Quotes

As soon as he was gone, we opened, "Baucis and Philemon." An elderly couple living in a cottage, the...

Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. ...

On the third, directly before me, were embedded more polished letters: PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM....

Time is just quantified eternity.

After all, I thought, what were days and weeks in the presence of eternity?

Poor, ill-advised Roderich! What evil power did you conjure up to poison in its first youth the race...

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In t...

A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise...

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.

Man, when he is re-born, passes through the ages as he who is born; and the preceding state is alway...

I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that nei...

No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's m...

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to anc...

Hence this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is ...

One of the strangest things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite s...

L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.

The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our l...

In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such ...

Maybe the most sacred function of memory is just that: to render the distinction between past, prese...

Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everyth...

If, in all that you wish to do, you begin by asking yourself: am I certain that I would wish to do t...

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

I came to England weak in body, and, in consequence of much study, as I suppose, I was taken ill on ...

Winston stopped reading, chiefly in order to appreciate the fact that he was reading, in comfort and...

The divine plan of happiness enables family relationships to be perpetuated beyond the grave. Sacred...

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal ...

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to m...

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passio...

They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.

IT's not death. It's eternal life. And you get't'be yourself. Compared to that, this world isn't but...

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom an...

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribe...

In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.

And those of us who trust ourselves the least,Who doubt and question most, these, it may be,Will mak...

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when hea...

…   not my own opinion, but my wife’s: Yesterday, when weary with writing, I was called to supper, a...

We'll teach it that the humblest insect measuring out its miserable days by the pug-wuggery and skul...

Hill tops like hot iron glitter bright in the sun, And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they r...

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is...

Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poign...

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience t...

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

-So you don't believe we have souls I guess?" and Legs laughed and said, "Yeah probably we do but wh...

Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest

It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open ...

There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and ther...

As Delphine watched, into her head there popped a strange notion: the idea that perhaps strongly exp...

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is or...

If I die, don't take this too hard," she counseled them, "death is only part of things bigger than w...

If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belo...

A great ring of pure & endless lightDazzles the darkness in my heartAnd breaks apart the dusky cloud...

There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never ...

Come with me into the woods where spring isadvancing, as it does, no matter what,not being singular ...

The main thing is to stand up to the light, to joy (like our child) in the knowledge that I shall be...

If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus ...

A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, an...

Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alte...

I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the ...

With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill wit...

I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no ...

We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is ...

The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And...

We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of i...

In the small central square of Ljubljana, the statue of the poet stares fixedly at something. If you...

Truly Time is a vast Denful of Horrour, round about which a Serpent winds and in the winding bites i...

I had a good time that night, too," Michael said, "but I kept thinking, This is forever. This is for...

He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.

Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perish...

It was a night where the rogue drow felt tiny, and yet grand, a part of something ancient, eternal, ...

And you, Clara Westhoff, how simply and well you endured, lived through the experience, and made it ...

Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only...

We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spir...

A day is a miniature eternity.

One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor...

Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and...

…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness t...

While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow. God views our live...

Why would God provide heaven on earth when he's planned the real thing for you in eternity?

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye...

To make the most of your life, you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the...

Death is not your termination but your transition into eternity, so there are eternal consequences t...

Then I glanced at the ring on my finger.The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know w...

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do ...