Eternity Quotes - Page 35

• Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human ken -- the Man bursts, in some unknown manner, the bars of non-existence, and announces with a cry the beginning of his brief life. In the night of non-existence there bursts forth also a little candle, lit by an unseen hand. Mark well its flame: for it is the life of that Man.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Night, Men, Flames

  4 Copy quote

• Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use it to enrich the canvas and to probe more deeply into the object. Colour also decided, to a certain extent, my spiritual outlook, but it is subordinated to life, and above all, to the treatment of form. Too much emphasis on colour at the expense of form and space would make a double manifestation of itself on the canvas, and this would verge on craft work.

  Max Beckmann

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Expression

  "On my Painting". Max Beckmann's Speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art', London, July 21, 1938.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I am peaceful, I shall see
  Beauty's face continually;
  Feeding on her wine and bread
  I shall be wholly comforted,
  For she can make one day for me
  Rich as my lost eternity.

  Sara Teasdale

  Wine, Peaceful, One Day

  "The Wind in the Hemlock". "Flame and Shadow". Book by Sara Teasdale, 1920.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dog, Stars, Men

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.128, Vintage

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Children, Night, Cease

  8 Copy quote

• Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Hands, Infinity

  Sri Aurobindo (1995). “Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol”, p.423, Lotus Press

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.

  Andre Malraux

  Men, West, Forget

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part IV, Chapter I, 1953.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do not see them here; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. 'I am thyself,what hast thou done to me?' 'And Iand Ithyself,' (lo! each one saith,) 'And thou thyself to all eternity!

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Self, Done, Lasts

  'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 2 'Lost Days'

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• What to my Saviour shall I giveWho freely hath done this for me?I'll serve him here whilst I shall liveAnd Loue him to Eternity

  Anne Bradstreet

  Done, Saviour

  Anne Bradstreet, “By Night When Others Soundly Slept”

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior.

  Baker Brownell

  Art, Communication, Mean

  4 Copy quote

• Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds, Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds, This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.

  Stephen Spender

  Clouds, Soul, Despair

  "Poems (In Railway Halls, on Pavements Near the Traffic)". Book by Stephen Spender, 1933.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Happy those early days when I Shined in my Angel-infancy. Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back (at that short space) Could see a glimpse of His bright face. When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity.

  Henry Vaughan

  Flower, Angel, First Love

  Silex Scintillans "The Retreat" l. 1 (1650 - 1655)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.

  Greg Egan

  Want

  "Axiomatic". Book by Greg Egan, eidolon.net. 1995.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You will find that there is no other difference of opinion as regards any portions of the Universe, except that the philosophers believe in the Eternity of the Universe and we believe in the Creation. Note this.

  Maimonides

  Believe, Differences, Opinion

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.310, Courier Corporation

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. Into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. It is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Hope, Night

  5 Copy quote

• These terrifying forms which advance on me, I feel that the despair they bring is alive. It slips into this nucleus of life beyond which the paths of eternity extend. It is truly an eternal separation. They slip their knives into this center where I feel myself a man, they sever those vital ties which bind me to the dream of my lucid reality.

  Antonin Artaud

  Dream, Reality, Men

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.93, Univ of California Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Men, Earth, Equal

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “The Art of Life”, p.1991, John Wiley & Sons

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of eternity; they give a space, a meaning, a dignity to all the rest of the earth over which they brood.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Bible, Eight, White

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 33), 1895.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  World, Vexation, Pleasure

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1863). “Sermons Preached Before His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales: During His Tour in the East in the Spring of 1862 with Notices of Some of the Localities Visited”, p.95

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Eternity.—Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must be, yet which contradict'st All sense, all reasoning,—thou, who never wast Less than thyself, and who still art thyself Entire, though the deep draught which Time has taken Equals thy present store—No line can reach To thy unfathomed depths. The reasoning sage Who can dissect a sunbeam, count the stars, And measure distant worlds, is here a child, And, humbled, drops his calculating pen.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Art, Stars, Children

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.230

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

  Charles Buck

  Awful, Consideration, Source

  Charles Buck (1831). “Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining”, p.44

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is only Jesus Christ who has thrown light on life and immortality through the gospel; and because He has done so, and has enabled us by His atoning death and intercession to make the most of this discovery, His gospel is, for all who will, a power of God unto salvation.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Jesus, Light, Discovery

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 210. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The present is an infinitesimal between two infinites. 'Tis a line (a thing without breadth or thickness) moving across the surface of Eternity. The present is no more, by the time you have said, 'This is present.'

  Henry Harland

  Moving, Two, Lines

  "The Lady Paramount". Book by Henry Harland, Chapter 7, 1902.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Infinity, Terror, Behinds

  7 Copy quote

• What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

  Robert E. Howard

  Death, Ocean, Cosmic

  Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.168, Del Rey

  23 Copy quote

  Show source