Eternity Quotes - Page 40

• Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dark, Thinking, Forever

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• We never know when we too will be called into eternity. I doubt if even one of those people who got on those planes or walked into the World Trade Center or the Pentagon last Tuesday morning thought it would be the last day of their lives. They didn't - it didn't occur to them. And that's why each of us needs to face our own spiritual need and commit ourselves to God and his will now.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Morning, People

  Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Delivered 14 September, National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Washington D.C.

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• Infidels: Repent of Mohammedanism or burn in hell forever, throughout eternity.

  J. B. Stoner

  Scary, Forever, Hell

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• The only thing that helps me keep faith is to stay in the truth of love because when you love someone - or many people - you believe in them and you believe in who they are and what they can do...then your belief has to go to an eternal presence because when you really care for someone you can't bear the thought of never seeing them again. You want that mystery of eternity to be real.

  Dolores Hart

  Real, Believe, Love Is

  "Catching up with Mother Dolores Hart as the Hollywood star-turned-Catholic nun reflects on her book tour, the possibility of a movie and Pope Francis". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won't bother now, I think it's a terrible, a terrible mistake.

  Stephen Fry

  Mistake, Thinking, Clouds

  "The Importance of Unbelief". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Understanding, Doe

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• Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Rhyme, Perishing

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• Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Joy, Want, All Things

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• That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, Men, Heaven

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• The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Love Is, Lovely

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1758, Delphi Classics

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• The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.927, Delphi Classics

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• Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

  Honore de Balzac

  Fever, Six, Week

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• I summon to the winding ancient stair;
  Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

  William Butler Yeats

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2012). “The Winding Stair and Other Poems: A Facsimile Edition”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Many times man lives and dies
  Betweeen his two eternities,
  That of race and that of soul,
  And ancient Ireland knew it all.
  Whether man die in his bed
  Or the rifle knocks him dead

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Men, Race

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.

  William James

  Block, Thoughtful, Thinking

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.288, Courier Corporation

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• What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.

  Aristotle

  Knowledge, Unqualified, Observation

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1799, Princeton University Press

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• Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.

  Victor Hugo

  Drama, Epic, History

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo ...”

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• Just girt me for the onset with Eternity,
  When breath blew back,
  And on the other side
  I heard recede the disappointed tide!

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Tides, Sides

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.67, Harvard University Press

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• On and on eternally
  Shall your altered fluid run,
  Bud and bloom and go to seed;
  But your singing days are done

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Running, Singing, Bud

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.187, eBookIt.com

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• Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead
  Is great Apollo; and the happier he

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dust, Long, Apollo

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1950). “Second April: and, The buck in the snow [and other poems]”

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• The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

  George Santayana

  Truth, Mean, Quality

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.72, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.

  Mason Cooley

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking

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• What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?

  Blaise Pascal

  Knowledge, Men, What Matters

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Loss, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.

  Franz Kafka

  Time, May, Might

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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