A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
Don DeLillo

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

A human life is a schooling for eternity.
Gottfried Keller

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
Robert Doisneau

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
Hermann von Helmholtz

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Brigitte Bardot

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Henry B. Adams

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
Michael Korda

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.
Joy Page

And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires.
Elias Hicks

Architecture aims at Eternity.
Christopher Wren

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
Jean Paul

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 is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
Alfred de Vigny

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
Michael Ende