Eternity Quotes
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If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.
Montgomery Clift
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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.
John Milton
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Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
Benjamin Lloyd Stormont Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft
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Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.
Thomas Ken
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... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.
Flannery O'Connor
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Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail.
Elsa Barker
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Every burden prepares you for eternity.
Basilea Schlink
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Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.
Thomas Aquinas
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Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
Thomas Carlyle
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The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.
Mother Angelica
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There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever... One exists in eternity, one has become eternal... One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.
Terence McKenna
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Lukewarm people think about life on earth much more often than eternity in heaven.
Francis Chan
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And I swear, if there is a way for us to be together, I will find it. No matter how long it takes. If I have to chase your soul to the ends of eternity, I won't stop until I find you, I promise.
Julie Kagawa
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The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
William Barclay
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In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base spreads out in manifold foothills into the world of mortals. It is the way by which man can raise himself to the divine and by which the divine can reveal itself to man.
Rene Daumal
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What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?
Blaise Pascal
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When I am in pain, I must know that beauty always has been and always will be. This is as close to eternity as I need to be.
Bill T. Jones
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Going back to the origin is called peace; it means reversion to destiny. Reversion to destiny is called eternity. Those who know eternity are called enlightened.
Lao Tzu
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If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
Erwin W. Lutzer
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He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity.
Randy Alcorn
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The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.
William Blake
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Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
William Ellery Channing
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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
William Blake