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

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

Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.
Antoine Arnauld

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

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
Sri Aurobindo

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

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

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

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

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

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
William Barclay

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

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

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

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

The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.
Christian Lous Lange

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

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

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

The sum of all sums is eternity.
Lucretius