Edmond Jabes Quotes

Nothingness is a sigh of eternity, a casual avowal of the infinite.

Edmond Jabes

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

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • Eternity

• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Human
  • Distance
  • Wonderful

• 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

• I propose to build for eternity.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Eternity
  • Build
  • Propose

• God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Gods
  • Infinite

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

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • City
  • Eternity
  • Jerusalem

• People believe that there's no room for change, there's no room to grow and if we're talking about this idea of God which is the infinite then there's no way that there's no room to grow because infinity is endless. So there must be more room to understand more and to evolve the way we think about this idea.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• 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

• True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • True
  • Lord

• 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

• 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

• I think that there's an infinite amount of places where you can stick a camera. There's an infinite amount of choices of what could be going on. There's an infinite amount of places for so many things, so you have to figure out how to do your job.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Choices

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

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Great
  • Knows
  • Eternity

• However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Eternity
  • Forest
  • Wolf

• 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.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • May
  • Hurt
  • Eternity

• It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Distance
  • Greek
  • Philosopher

• Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • World
  • Death
  • Worst

• 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

• Generally there is in man a divinity which strives to push him onward and upward. We believe that this power within him is the spirit that comes from God. Man lived before he came to this earth, and he is here now to strive to perfect the spirit within. At sometime in his life, every man is conscious of a desire to come in touch with the Infinite. His spirit reaches out for God. This sense of feeling is universal, and all men ought to be, in deepest truth, engaged in the same great work—the search for and the development of spiritual peace and freedom.

  

  David
  • Believe
  • Spiritual
  • Feelings

• A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by the word of God.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Wonder
  • Darkness
  • Creation

• 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

• It's correct that I'm a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn't be in Formula 1. I think it's more honest to act how you really feel than pretending to be the smiling boy who actually isn't in the mood to smile.

  

  Sebastian Vettel
  • Thinking
  • Mood
  • Honest

• Nothingness is a sigh of eternity, a casual avowal of the infinite.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Eternity
  • Infinite
  • Nothingness