Eternity Quotes

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

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.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.

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.

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!

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

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.

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

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

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.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

Architecture aims at Eternity.