Eternity Quotes

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

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.

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

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.

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

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.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

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.

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.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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.

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.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

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.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

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.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

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.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

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.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

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.

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.