Quotes with eternity

  • Every situation, every moment - is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
  • The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
  • The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
  • Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
  • To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
  • You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity.
  • The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
  • Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
  • I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
  • Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
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  • Benjamin E. Mays I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
    As quoted in "Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography", Mays constantly recited to his students this anonymous poem.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Henry David Thoreau As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Marie Beyon Ray 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.
    Marie Beyon Ray
     
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  • Joseph Addison Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Thomas Carlyle 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.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Robert Doisneau A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
    Robert Doisneau
    French photographer (1912 - 1994)
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  • Brigitte Bardot A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Henry Brooks Adams A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Jean Paul As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Eugène Ionesco Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Albert Camus Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Alfred de Vigny But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Nelson Mandela Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.
    Documentary Mandela (1994)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • John Milton Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Albert Einstein Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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