Eternity Quotes

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  When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “The Victory Of Patience”

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• Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. 


  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Sympathy, Wedding Anniversary

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Inspiring, Karma, Good Life

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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  Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.

  John Milton

  Keys, Hands, Golden

  'Comus' (1637) l. 12

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• Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Time, Long, Strange

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• We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We started sober: are love's startled drunkards. You hide me in your cloak of nothingness Reflect my ghost in your glass of being I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream Where your eternity briefly trembles.

  Rumi

  Dream, Glasses, Sea

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• Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

  John Milton

  Eye, Ends, Abyss

  John Milton (1732). “Milton's Paradise Lost”

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• Time is the image of eternity.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Time

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• Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

  Dante Alighieri

  Beauty, Fire, Heat

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• What we do in life ripples in eternity.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ripple

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• If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Air, Soul, Atheism

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.42, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• 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.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Henry Van Dyke, “Time Is”

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• Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.53, Ravenio Books

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• Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Death, Time, Men

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• Brothers, what we do in life........echoes in eternity.

  Russell Crowe

  Brother, Echoes

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• It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

  Helen Keller

  Science, Unseen Things, Giving

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.70, Om Books International

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• Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.

  Paul Tillich

  Real, Forgotten

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

  Paul Gauguin

  Life, Littles, Fractions

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

  Helen Hayes

  Love, Glimpse, Engagement

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• Eternity forbids thee to forget.

  Lord Byron

  Forget, Thee

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.889, Delphi Classics

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• Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

  Mother Teresa

  Death, Losing A Loved One, Home

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• For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Dying, Persons

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• This life is only a prelude to eternity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Prelude, Life Is

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• Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Love, Lasts, Relays

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1902). “The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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