Eternity Quotes - Page 5

• All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Childishness, Eternal

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  One Day, Sync, Within You

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.43, Modern Library

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• After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

  Joy Page

  Grief, Finding The One, Strange

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• Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.

  Rumi

  Heart, Love Is, Forever With You

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• All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Promise, Delight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• Some days the mere fact of seeing feels like perfect happiness... You feel so rich you long to share your jubilation with others. The memory of such moments is my most precious possession. Maybe because there've been so few of them. A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-- even if you put them end to end they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds snatched from eternity.

  Robert Doisneau

  Memories, Two, Perfect

  Robert Doisneau (1980). “Photographs”

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• I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

  Keir Dullea

  Eye, Thinking, Blink

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• Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

  Lord Acton

  Fall, Law, Tables

  Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History, 1906, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. June 11, 1895.

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• A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

  Don DeLillo

  Pain, Ideas, Catholic

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.81, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

  Jerry Falwell

  Real, Thinking, People

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• Architecture aims at Eternity

  Christopher Wren

  Architecture, Aim

  Sir Christopher Wren (1942). “The City Churches, Vestry Minutes and Churchwardens' Accounts: St Mary's, Ingestre, Staffordshire; All Saints' and Sessions House, Northampton; the Royal Hospital, Chelsea; the Church and Almshouses, Farley, Wiltshire; the Sheldonian Theatre and Tom Tower, Oxford; the Market House, Abingdon, Berkshire; the Bridge, St. John's College, Cambridge; the New School, Eton; Kensington Palace; the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; Morden and Bromley Colleges; and the Five Tracts on Architecture by Sir Chr. Wren. Drawings, Engravings and Photographs ...”

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• My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Giving Up, Love You, Firsts

  Thomas Goodwin (1861). “The Works of Thomas Goodwin”, p.167

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• Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

  James Huneker

  Art, Philosophy, History

  James Huneker (1913). “The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments”

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• The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.

  Lucinda Franks

  Simple, Mind, Rich

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• Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!

  Abraham Cowley

  Life, Two, Weak

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• Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Fishing, Walden Pond

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Eternity Of Life, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Beauty, Mirrors

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Memories, Transcendentalism

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

  Woody Allen

  Death, Witty, Humorous

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• Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing.

  William Mountford

  Mean, Glasses, House

  William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.208

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• Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

  Joseph Addison

  Time, Time Management

  'Cato' (1713) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Eternity - waste of time.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Time, Waste, Wasting Time

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• 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.

  Bette Davis

  Congratulations, Apples, Goal

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

  James Broughton

  Past, Here And Now, Stills

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