William Blake Quotes
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.
Quotes to Explore
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Do all things with love.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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I propose to build for eternity.
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Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
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I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy.
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Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.
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At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.
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Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.
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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
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The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed, sealed, recorded, possession given. No renters, no lessees of Heaven, but all property and home owners.
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To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.
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However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.
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In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything permanently to us that will last for eternity. Only we ourselves can affect our eternal progression.
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Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.
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Remember that I will be here', he said resolutely. 'For an eternity (...). I would wait for you for an eternity.
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Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
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Truths may clash without contradicting each other.
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Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice.
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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
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Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
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Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.
