Eternity Quotes

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.

The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.'

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

A human life is a schooling for eternity.

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.

You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.