Eternity Quotes

There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

Give a man love, and he will be happy for a time. Teach a man how to love, and he will have joy through all eternity.

If you live to be 100 years old, what you've done here for the last two days, weeks, monthswhat you've done here will echo in eternity.

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.

When she smiles, it feels like the first warm day of March-- after an eternity of snow, when you suddenly remember how summer feels on the backs of your bare calves & in the part of your hair.

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.

Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.

. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.

Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.

Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

Eternity bids thee to forget.

Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.

Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

Put your trust in the living God and all will be right in time and eternity.

I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity

There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.

The worship of Christ is our joy and privilege today. And tomorrow, and next Sunday, and for all eternity.

But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.

Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.

Life's face is never the same though we may look at it for all eternity.

Going back to the origin is called peace; it means reversion to destiny. Reversion to destiny is called eternity. Those who know eternity are called enlightened.

Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone.

No, he hadn’t just dragged her to California. He’d dragged her into a cursed eternity. A burden that should have been his alone to bear.

Cam: She is so lovely when she sleeps. Daniel: Is that why you wanted her to sleep for all eternity?

Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.

The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

habit is our idea of eternity.

Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction.

there won't be any pain, he promised. Only an eternity together. Come back to me. (Stanton, book #5)

The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here to Eternity must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. LEWIS, The Four Loves Life is short. Eternity is long. BENTLEY LITTLE, His Father's Son What we do now echoes in eternity.

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.

Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into utter nothingness for all eternity.

If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.