Eternity Quotes

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

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
William Blake

Lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake

Sun, Lives, Rise

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
Meister Eckhart

God, Father, Everything

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Clouds, Mountains, Presence

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

Life, Looking, Photograph

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis

Success, Work, Goal

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

Teacher, Tell, Influence

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Lord Acton

Change, Moral, Fall

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

Time, God, Point

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
Agatha Christie

Everything, Existed, Lingers

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Nature, Creates, Delivers

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.
Drew Barrymore

Hate, Small, Hell

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
Mason Cooley

Thought, Eludes

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!
Max Muller

Time, Best, Beautiful

Space is to place as eternity is to time.
Joseph Joubert

Time, Place, Space

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

End, Mean, Thought

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

Time, Nothing, Thought

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

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
Doug Coupland

Future, Different, Two

The sum of all sums is eternity.
Lucretius

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
Flannery O'Connor

Time, Find, Problem

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

Long, Enough, Moment

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.
Herman Hesse

Time, Good, Evil

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
John Milton

Death, Key, Golden

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Madame de Stael

Love, Time, Fear

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
Emile M. Cioran

Time, Future, Matter

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

Moment, Comedy, Tragedy

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
Jerome K. Jerome

Time, Shadow, Background

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
Herman Melville

Hope, Struggle, Soul

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