Eternity Quotes

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.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

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.

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.

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.

The sum of all sums is eternity.

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.

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.

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.

War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

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!

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

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.

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.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

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.

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.

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.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

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.

Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.