Community Quote by Rita Dove

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

“Eternity is to us as time, the age to come, the continuation, the manifestation, and perfection of our present and true existence.”

— Adolph Saphir

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

— Dorothy Parker

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

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

— Hannah More

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

All at Once Is What Eternity Is.

— Kenneth Patchen

The eternity of the spirit does not begin after death ... but is, like God, always present.

— Moses Hess

“‎"Eternity is without succession, a simultaneous possession of all joys. To those who live toward Eternity, it really is not something at the end;…

— Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Eternity is selfless giving. Eternity sends forth all of the worlds, the very fabric of existence.

— Frederick Lenz

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

— Mason Cooley