Eternity Quotes

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
James Broughton

Future, Past, Everything

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

Time, Seem, Spend

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Success, Failure, Children

Part of the reason why I've never said that I was gay until now was because I didn't want that adjective assigned to my name for all of eternity. You know, gay Rosie O'Donnell.
Rosie O'Donnell

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.
Tony Parsons

Parents, Between, Dead

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.
William Ames

Present, Nor, Existence

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Sean O'Casey

Lives, Action, Touches

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.
Matthew Simpson

Faith, Knowledge, Through

I always get forwarded these weird pictures of people getting Kenny Powers tattoos. That's probably the craziest thing I've ever seen: Somebody will ink my face on their body for eternity.
Danny McBride

Getting, Body, Face

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.
Emanuel Swedenborg

Life, Death, Spiritual

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
Bob Brown

Business, Here, Longer

So this is it. Match point for eternity.
Boris Becker

I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.'
Peter Berg

Great, Winning, Thought

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

Life, Religion, Time

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
Agnes Smedley

Love, Person, Him

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.
Jeremy Northam

End, Nothing, Different

The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
Walter Martin

Nature, Power, Three

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

Time, Long, Reason

Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.
Catherine McAuley

God, Last, Until

I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.
Philip Levine

Time, Saying, Eyes

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

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.
Michael Servetus

Shall, Continue, Event

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Time, After, Dead

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

Truth, Hate, Writing

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

Moving, Body, Move

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
Arthur Koestler

Scientists, Keyhole, Peeping

I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity,' so to speak.
Elfriede Jelinek

Feeling, Writing, Speak

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.
Clayton Christensen

Future, Blessed, Important

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
Lucinda Franks

Mind, Simple, Rich

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.
Thomas Goodwin

Love, Time, God

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