Eternity Quotes - Page 4

• Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Inspirational, Time, Shadow

  Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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• Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

  John Donne

  Time, Art, Philosophy

  John Donne, John E. Booty (1990). “John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers”, p.7, Paulist Press

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• Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

  William Blake

  Love, Time, Productions

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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• Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Silence, Attention

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.57, City Lights Books

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• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Memorial Day

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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

  Tom Stoppard

  Funny, Time, Humor

  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) act 2

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• God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Life, Time, Men

  Jeremy Taylor, George Rust (1835). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: With an Essay, Biographical and Critical ...”, p.403

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• In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Space, Life And Death, Solitude

  Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.225, Verso

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• God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

  Marianne Williamson

  Wisdom, Time, God Exists

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Birthday, Tattoo, Death

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Success, Children, Congratulations

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• In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

  Christopher Fry

  Time, Eternity Of Life, Tragedy

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• What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Relationship, Heartbreak

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• If we can say with Seneca, "This life is only a prelude to eternity," then we need not worry so much over the fittings and furnishings of this ante-room; and more than that, it will give dignity and purpose to the fleeting days to know they are linked with the eternal things as prelude and preparation.

  Minot Judson Savage

  Life, Giving, Worry

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• Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever.

  Laozi

  Forever, Heaven, Earth

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• Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

  Simone Weil

  Soul, Violence

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.134, U of Nebraska Press

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• He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Looks, World, Latter

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.198

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• Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.

  Joseph Addison

  Opposites, Balance, Weight

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

  Andre Bazin

  Photography, Art, Doe

  André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.14, Univ of California Press

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• Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Beauty, Death, Causes

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• The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Song, Heaven

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.

  Walter Martin

  Unity, Doctrine, Three

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• In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Fishing, Sublime

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• What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Time, Men, Doe

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• The sum of all sums is eternity.

  Lucretius

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