Eternity Quote by Marilynne Robinson

No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

We are given so few years on this earth, and there are so many good things that get in the way of the best…

— Paul Washer

There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

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

Every man wants to connect his life with something he thinks eternal.

— Andrew Mellon

If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

— Saint Augustine

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

Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters…

— Anonymous

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

The world and that which, by another name, men have thought good to call Heaven (under the compass of which all things are covered),…

— Pliny the Elder

When we give our lives to Jesus Christ, the things of earth grow strangely dim. The values of eternity grow increasingly bright.

— David Jeremiah