Eternity Quotes - Page 6

• Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ocean, Doe, Taste

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• Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality!

  Heinrich Heine

  Death, Summer, Blessed

  Heinrich Heine (1891). “The Works of Heinrich Heine”

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• Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Giving, Minutes

  "Resignation" by Friedrich Schiller, Stanza 18, 1786.

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• It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Creating, Religion

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1860). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes”, p.119

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• I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.11, Broadway Books

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• In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Past

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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• If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

  Hermann Hesse

  Time, Real, Evil

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.107, Om Books International

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• We are the mirror, as well as the face in it.
  We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.
  We are pain and what cures pain.
  We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.
  Soul of the world, no life, nor world remain,
  no beautiful women and men longing.
  Only this ancient love circling the holy black stone of nothing.
  Where the lover is the loved, the horizon and everything within it.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Sweet, Pain

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• I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photograph, Instant, Understood

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• Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Pieces

  Moses Mendelssohn (1838). “Jerusalem; a Treatise on Ecclesiastical Authority and Judaism”, p.179

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• Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Follow Your Bliss, Hereafter

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• I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.

  Epictetus

  Time, Men, Hours

  Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.124

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• During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal, these little specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end.

  Harriet Doerr

  Life, Rivers, Littles

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• Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  World, Immortal Life, Action

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

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• Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

  Hermann Hesse

  Long, Moments, Enough

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.

  Dennis Miller

  Scary, Ironic, Enough Time

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• Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

  John Milton

  Death, Keys, Eternity Of Life

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• Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Death, Peace, Eternity Of Life

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• Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
  Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
  In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd,
  Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;
  And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last
  The speed that spins the future and the past:
  And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,
  Awful eternity shall reign alone.

  Petrarch

  Time, Pain, Fate

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.440, Delphi Classics

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• The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.

  Thomas Browne

  World, Parentheses

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.194

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• One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

  Rita Dove

  Community, Gone, Definitions

  Rita Dove, Earl G. Ingersoll (2003). “Conversations with Rita Dove”, p.146, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

  Bill Hybels

  Hate, Real, Teaching

  "How do you sell God in the 21st century? More heaven, less hell" by Meghan O'Gieblyn, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2014.

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• A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Music, Reflection, Circles

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• Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

  Arthur Koestler

  Funny, Science, Scientist

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• Eternity was in our lips and eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Lips

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 3, l. 35

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