Eternity Quotes - page 5

In that instant when I had seen the blazing star that was the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths of the hypercosmical past and the hypercosmical future also, yet coexistent in eternity, lay cosmos beyond cosmos. (Olaf Stapledon)
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. View quote
Bill Hybels
I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth. View quote
Joe Haldeman
High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of eternity; they give a space, a meaning, a dignity to all the rest of the earth over which they brood. View quote
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion. View quote
Giordano Bruno
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hard-working artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection? View quote
Thomas Mann
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake... View quote
Francis Bacon
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! View quote
Paul Gauguin
All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more. View quote
Helen Keller
Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with that ("et avec cela", Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self ("moi", Fr.) so hardly worthy ("digne", Fr.) of it. (African Spir)
A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity. View quote
African Spir
Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child. View quote
Heraclitus
And throughout all eternity I forgive you, you forgive me. View quote
William Blake
This world of imagination is the world of eternity. View quote
William Blake
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment. View quote
William Blake
Every tear from every eye Becomes a babe in eternity. View quote
William Blake
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity. View quote
Mircea Eliade
The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity. View quote
P. D. Ouspensky
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the tablets of eternity. View quote
John W. Campbell
The blunder is to estimate,- "Eternity is Then,” We say, as of a station. Meanwhile he is so near, He joins me in my ramble, Divides abode with me, No friend have I that so persists As this Eternity. (Emily Dickinson)
Since then 'tis centuries and yet Feels shorter than the DAY I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends. View quote
Stephen Spender
When Time is spent, Eternity begins. View quote
Helen Hunt Jackson
What is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple - without a divinity! View quote
Mikhail Lermontov