Duration Quote by Thomas Browne

The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.

— Thomas Browne

It would be a sign of great simplicity to think that the world was created in six days, or indeed at all in time;…

— Philo

If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis…

— John Donne

Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

— John Donne

Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

— Moses Mendelssohn

Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.

— Walter Lang

Time is just quantified eternity.

— Deepak Chopra

“Time is inexplicable because it moves – clicks away – at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into the present.…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

— Charles Spurgeon

Life is an eternal instant. Chronological time does not exist.

— Samael Aun Weor

To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the…

— Franz Kafka

There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on…

— Alan Watts