Eternity Quotes

1859 Eternity quotes by 1060 unique authors

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be… — Helen Hayes
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an… — Hermann Hesse
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. — Hermann Hesse
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. — Eric Hoffer
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a… — Eugene Ionesco
When Time is spent, Eternity begins. — Helen Hunt Jackson
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity. — Jerome K. Jerome
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. — Jesse Jackson
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. — William James
Space is to place as eternity is to time. — Joseph Joubert
A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each… — Maynard James Keenan
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. — Michael Korda
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. — Thomas Mann
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… — Groucho Marx
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. — Herman Melville
Genius is eternal patience. — Michelangelo
It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity. — Dennis Miller
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. — John Milton
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm… — John Muir
How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day… — Max Muller
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. — Edvard Munch
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of… — Vladimir Nabokov

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