Eternity Quotes IV

ETERNITY QUOTES IV

quotations about eternity

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

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Anam Cara

A thousand years ago five minutes were
Equal to forty ounces of fine sand.
Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and
Infinite aftertime: above your head
They close like giant wings, and you are dead.

VLADIMIR NABOKOV

Pale Fire

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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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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Man and Superman

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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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Time is just quantified eternity.

DEEPAK CHOPRA

The Way of the Wizard

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Yes, from the mountain of eternity we shall look down, and behold the whole plain spread before us. Down here we get lost and confused in the devious valleys that run off from the rdots of the hills everywhere, and we cannot make out where the streams are going, and what there is behind that low shoulder of the hill yonder. But when we get to the summit peak and look down, it will all shape itself into one consistent whole, and we shall see it all at once.

THOMAS BOSTON

attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers

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The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.

FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE

attributed, Thoughts for Meaningful Life

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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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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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Suppose, after one of our most violent snowstorms, which covers the earth for thousands of miles, one single flake were melted in a thousand years; or if a single beam of the sun's rays stood for a year, and as many years were added as there have been rays flooding the earth since the sun began to shine; or if a single drop of the ocean were exhaled in a million years, till the last drop was taken up; though we cannot conceive the duration of such apparently almost interminable periods, yet though we could, eternity would stretch as far beyond them as if they had not yet begun.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

attributed, Day's Collacon

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There's never a beginning for eternity.

TOBA BETA

Master of Stupidity

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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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Many habitually think and act as if there is no eternity.... We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.