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One instant is eternity; / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees.

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• I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • Eternity

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Eternity

• Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • City
  • Eternity
  • Jerusalem

• I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy.

  

  Alexander Scriabin
  • Moment
  • Eternity
  • Affirmation

• At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Eyes
  • Moments
  • Eye

• 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.

  

  Anna Friel
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Good
  • God
  • Doubt

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Sacrifice
  • Eternity

• 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.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Home
  • Heaven
  • Eternity

• I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Great
  • Knows
  • Eternity

• Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Life
  • Running
  • Alone

• Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Enough
  • Eternity

• There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Action
  • Word
  • Eternity

• Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Want
  • Eternity
  • Snowflake

• Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Joy
  • Eternity
  • All Things

• Existence begins in every instant.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Existence
  • Instant
  • Begins

• You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.

  

  William Rose Benet
  • Friendship
  • Self
  • Eternity

• Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Humanity
  • Existence

• This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Play
  • Shine
  • Eternity

• By the way, you know, Mitt Romney and McCain, I don't agree with them, but they would have been okay. I could have been satisfied with them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Way
  • Satisfied
  • Okay

• Great soul of Gandhi, cover your ears. You will not want to hear this! Listen, you inbred piece of Ku Klux Krap! You white people love to be racist, but the only races you can tell apart are Indianapolis and Daytona. I hope I am reincarnated as toothpaste, so I never have to see you again. Now take your twelve-pack of wife-beating juice and get the park out of my store!

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Soul
  • Wife
  • Ears

• For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Kind
  • Creative
  • Historian

• One instant is eternity; / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees.

  

  Wumen Huikai
  • Eternity
  • Instant