The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
A. E. Housman

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

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
Taylor Caldwell

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

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

There are tons of people I'd like to freeze for all of eternity, but we won't go into that!
Holly Marie Combs

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
Tom Wolfe

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

Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.
Ardel Wray

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

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

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

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

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

War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.
John Cory

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

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

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

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
Susan Taylor

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
Al Stewart