Eternity Quotes

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke

Love, Time, Fear

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein

Politics, Present, Equation

I have just got a new theory of eternity.
Albert Einstein

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Marcus Garvey

Nature, Great, God

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake

Flower, Heaven, Hands

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Khalil Gibran

Beauty, Mirror, Gazing

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Khalil Gibran

Time, End, Here

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Khalil Gibran

Dreams, Trust, Hidden

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

Love, Lost, Give

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau

Yourself, Live, Find

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

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

Beauty, Time, Whole

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Birthday, Fear, Last

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Book, Else, Everyone

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert Camus

Today, Philosophy, Justify

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

Time, Death, Turning

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Groucho Marx

Life, Time, Mind

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time, Good, Death

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
William Blake

Flower, Heaven, Hand

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

End, Put, Reflection

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life, Death, Experience

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch

Body, Grow, Flowers

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes

Love, Truth, Important

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
Ambrose Bierce

Hope, Present, Realm

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle

Time, Good, Deep

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Virginia Woolf

Sight, Print, Trivial

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Rain, Fire

The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes

Love, Important, Story

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle

Time, Deep, Silence

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