quotations about eternity
He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more he contemplates them, the former will grow greater and the latter less.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon: Or
When you can live forever what do you live for?
STEPHENIE MEYER
Twilight
For me eternity is nothing
But a short while
IRON MAIDEN
"If Eternity Should Fail", Book of Souls
The best way to deal with eternity is by living it one day at a time.
ALYSON NOËL
Evermore
There's never a beginning for eternity.
TOBA BETA
Master of Stupidity
Many habitually think and act as if there is no eternity.... We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.
RANDY ALCORN
Money
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
JOSEPH ADDISON
Cato
The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.
FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE
attributed, Thoughts for Meaningful Life
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
GRAHAM GREENE
The End of the Affair
In the sight of eternity
I realize my present state
A leaf in the storm of time
Drifting to the final gate
GOLDEN DAWN
"Sub Specie Aeternitatis", The Art of Dreaming
Suppose, after one of our most violent snowstorms, which covers the earth for thousands of miles, one single flake were melted in a thousand years; or if a single beam of the sun's rays stood for a year, and as many years were added as there have been rays flooding the earth since the sun began to shine; or if a single drop of the ocean were exhaled in a million years, till the last drop was taken up; though we cannot conceive the duration of such apparently almost interminable periods, yet though we could, eternity would stretch as far beyond them as if they had not yet begun.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
attributed, Day's Collacon
This speck of life in time's great wilderness
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
The past, the future, two eternities!
THOMAS MOORE
Lalla Rookh
Forever is composed of Nows--
'Tis not a different time--
Except for Infiniteness--
And Latitude of Home--
EMILY DICKINSON
"Forever is composed of Nows"