Eternity Quotes

I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.'

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

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.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.

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.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

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.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

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.

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.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

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.

A human life is a schooling for eternity.

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

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

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

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.

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.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

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.

You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

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.

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

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