Eternity Quotes - Page 10

• A moment is a concentrated eternity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Moments

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.220, Harvard University Press

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• The past, the future: - two eternities!

  Thomas Moore

  Time, Memories, Past

  Thomas Moore (1872). “The poetical works of Thomas Moore, with notes”, p.360

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• There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.

  James A. Garfield

  Heart, Men, Heaven

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 310, 1895.

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• We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Imagine, Conception

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.389, Modern Library

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• We are not eternity conscious enough.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Enough, Conscious

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• There is nothing but eternity. Eternity has always been and will always be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga

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• We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

  Alan Watts

  Talking, Listening, Ordinary

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• Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

  J. G. Holland

  Music, Song, Sea

  "Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects".

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• Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.

  David Gilmour

  Philosophical, Responsibility, People

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• My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.

  Roger Ebert

  Memories, Home, Paris

  "I do not fear death" by Roger Ebert, www.salon.com. September 15, 2011.

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• The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

  Plato

  Plato, Knowledge, Math

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• And in eternity, faith is the only currency that counts.

  Franklin Graham

  Heaven, Currency

  Franklin Graham (1998). “Living beyond the limits : a life in sync with God”

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• The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

  Eric Hoffer

  Effort, Individuality, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one journeying to heaven, one that falls; and leave you, not at home in either one, not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses, not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes a star each night, and rises; and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel) your life, with its immensity and fear, so that, now bounded, now immeasurable it is alternately stone in you and star.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Fall, Sunset

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Evening”

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• The wilderness that has come to us out of the eternity of the past, we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the future.

  Howard Zahniser

  Past, Wilderness, Projects

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• Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant?

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Mean, Passing Moments, Heaven

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• I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."

  Robert Southey

  Believe, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Struggle, Race, Golden

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• Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into utter nothingness for all eternity.

  Matt Groening

  Struggle, Today, Firsts

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• For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Clouds, Evil, Shadow

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• Life's face is never the same though we may look at it for all eternity.

  Kolbein Falkeid

  Life, Looks, May

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• Joy springs from a life lived with eternity's values in view.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Life, Spring, Views

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• History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

  James Anthony Froude

  Fall, Law, Voice

  James Anthony Froude (1867). “Short studies on Greate Subjects”, p.25

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