Eternity Quotes IV

ETERNITY QUOTES IV

quotations about eternity

Eternity is but time continued.

F. V. MOTHE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Eternity! Didn't it give you the cold shivers?

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Summer and Smoke

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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.

JOHN DONNE

Book of Devotions

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The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Anam Cara

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This world which stretches out before you, is but the vestibule of an immortal life. These deeds that are taking place around you, touch upon chords that extend by a thousand connections, visible and invisible, and vibrate in eternity.

EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Duties of Young Men

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It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.

RICHARD JEFFERIES

The Story of My Heart

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We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

PAULO COELHO

The Alchemist

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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

Triumph of Eternity

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I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

"A History of Eternity"

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I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.

SAMUEL R. DELANY

Dhalgren

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For me eternity is nothing
But a short while

IRON MAIDEN

"If Eternity Should Fail", Book of Souls

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We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives.

ALEXANDER MACLAREN

Sermons Preached in Manchester

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This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.

ANN VOSKAMP

One Thousand Gifts

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The problem is, eternity is barred to humans, and so humans, all too painfully aware of that and entertaining little hope of appealing against that verdict of fate, seek to stifle and deafen their tragic wisdom in a hubbub of frail and fleeting pleasures. This admittedly being a false calculation--for the same reason which prompted it (that tragic wisdom can never be chased or conjured away for good)--they condemn themselves, whatever their material wealth, to perpetual spiritual poverty: to continuous unhappiness.... Instead of seeking the way to happiness within the limits of their predicament, they take a long detour, hoping that somewhere along the route their odious and repulsive destiny may be escaped or fooled--only to land back in the despair that prompted them to start on their voyage of (dearly wished for, yet unattainable) discovery. The only discovery humans can possibly make on that voyage is that the route they have taken was but a detour that sooner or later will bring them back to the starting line.

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN

The Art of Life

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Tags: Zygmunt Bauman

When you can live forever what do you live for?

STEPHENIE MEYER

Twilight

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Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

JOSEPH ADDISON

Cato

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