Eternity Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar Download Open image “No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.” — Marguerite Yourcenar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eternity Existence
None can comprehend eternity but the eternal God. Eternity is an ocean, whereof we shall never see the shore; it is a deep, where… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Most people are completely oblivious to eternity. They look at the sky at night and they think that's eternity; it is just the senses… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Then we will understand that infinity was somewhere in our breath and that our Destiny is nothing else that the echo of an Accidental… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul... — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“To eat fruit is to welcome into oneself a fair living object, which is alien to us but is nourished and protected like us… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others.… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“ A amizade é, acima de tudo, certeza - é isso o que a distingue do amor.” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Quel bel levriero... si distese sulla mia vita (Memorie di Adriano, Saeculum Aureum)” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Heaven? Floating about with everyone you ever knew for eternity? Me family does me 'ed in after one day at xmas, I'd rather be… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
You may have some friends that come and go, but having a friend like God will last forever. — Alyssa Tillmon Copy Share Image
