Quotes with eternity

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  • Paul Gauguin Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Bob Kerrey Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.
    Bob Kerrey
    American politician (1943 - )
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  • William Blake Lives in eternity's sun rise.
    Several Questions Answered No. 1, He Who Binds
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Mme de Stael Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
    Mme de Stael
    French-Swiss novelist and essayist (1766 - 1817)
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  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.
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  • Gabriel Heatter Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
    Gabriel Heatter
    American radio commentator and journalist (1890 - 1972)
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  • Bill Bryson My father liked Iowa. He lived his whole life in the state, and is even now working his way through eternity there, in Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Albert Camus Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Lord Acton Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Arthur Koestler Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche 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.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Margaret Oliphant 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.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Lucian The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.
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  • Bob Brown The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • Helen Hayes 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.
    Helen Hayes
    American actress (1900 - 1993)
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  • A. E. Housman The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Helen Hayes 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.
    Helen Hayes
    American actress (1900 - 1993)
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