Eternity Quotes
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
Bardot, Brigitte
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Blake, William
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
Blake, William
He who bends to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise.
Browne, Sir Thomas
The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.
Browne, Sir Thomas
The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.
Byron, Lord
Eternity forbids thee to forget.
Chapin, Edwin Hubbell
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Cowley, Abraham
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
Cowley, Abraham
Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
Davis, Bette
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
de Stael, Anna Louise Germaine
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Donne, John
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
Donne, John
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
Dunbar, Paul
With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.
Lucretius
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
Maclean, Norman
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.
Milton, John
That golden key That opes the palace of eternity.
Milton, John
(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.
Moore, Thomas
This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities!
Moore, Thomas
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Petrarch, Francesco
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
Petrarch, Francesco
Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment. by the fates assign'd, Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind; And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last The speed that spins the future and the past: And, sovereign of an undisputed throne, Awful eternity shall reign alone.
Shakespeare, William
He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like Heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
von Schiller, Johann Friedrich
Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?