ETERNITY QUOTES IV

quotations about eternity

In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.

HERMANN HESSE

Steppenwolf


Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.

THOMAS AQUINAS

attributed, Treasury of Spiritual Wisdom


Life is short. Eternity is long.

BENTLEY LITTLE

His Father's Son


The vanity which adheres to the world in every form, when its pleasures and occupations are regarded as ultimate objects, is at once corrected when they are viewed in connexion with a boundless futurity; and whatever may be their intrinsic value, they rise into dignity and importance when considered as the seed of a future harvest, as the path which, however obscure, leads to honour and immortality.

ROBERT HALL

funeral sermon for the Princess Charlotte of Wales


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


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


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


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


It is a long road that leads to eternity, and the inns for travelers are few.

ELSA BARKER

Songs of a Vagrom Angel


Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.

ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE LAMARTINE

Last Night and Execution of the Girondists


Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Adonais


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

JORGE LUIS BORGES

"A History of Eternity"


There's never a beginning for eternity.

TOBA BETA

Master of Stupidity


When you can live forever what do you live for?

STEPHENIE MEYER

Twilight


The best way to deal with eternity is by living it one day at a time.

ALYSON NOËL

Evermore


The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.

FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE

attributed, Thoughts for Meaningful Life


For me eternity is nothing
But a short while

IRON MAIDEN

"If Eternity Should Fail", Book of Souls


He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more he contemplates them, the former will grow greater and the latter less.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon: Or


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


Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Man and Superman