Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old eternity quotes, eternity sayings, and eternity proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.Hermann Hesse
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Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing.William Mountford
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.Henry David Thoreau
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Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.Richard Jefferies
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Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.James Montgomery
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Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.Mason Cooley
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The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.Joseph Campbell
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If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Eternity was in our lips and eyes.William Shakespeare
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Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.Friedrich Schiller
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Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Eternity is a good man's meditation; for by thinking thereon he preventeth sin.Saint Basil
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Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.Russell M. Nelson
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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.Robert Green Ingersoll
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Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.Albert Camus
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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.Hermann Hesse
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.Henry David Thoreau
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Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities.Robert Murray McCheyne
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God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.Marianne Williamson
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Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.John Donne
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When you live in the light of eternity, your values change.Rick Warren
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Eternity has no gray hairs. The flowers fade, the heart withers, people grow old and die, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity.Reginald Heber
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Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.Moses Mendelssohn
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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.Thomas Carlyle
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.William Blake
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Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.Cornell Woolrich
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This life is only a prelude to eternity.Seneca
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To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.Frank Herbert
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.Khalil Gibran
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Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.Alphonse De Lamartine
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Trust in dreams for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.Suzanne Maher
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.Henry Adams
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All things from eternity are like forms and come round in circles.Marcus Aurelius
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To see a world in a grain 0f sand / And a heaven in a wildflower / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand / And eternity in an hour.William Blake
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Who can speak of eternity without a solecism, or think thereof without an ecstasy? Time we may comprehend, 'tis but five days elder than ourselves. Sir Thomas Browne
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Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.Thomas Carlyle
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Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot; hell is the eternity while he waits for it.Russell Green
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I saw eternity the other night, as a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.Henry Vaughan
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Eternity may be properly dominated by a God unfolding himself into light, and shining forth, such as he essentially is, namely, as immutable and the same.Plotinus
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We feel and know by experience that we are eternalBaruch Spinoza
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There are men I could spend eternity with, but not this life.Kathleen Thompson Norris
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Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?Tom Stoppard
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Eternity is boring, particular towards the end. Woody Allen
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It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.James Freeman
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Life is a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity. Billy Graham
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Most people are living for today with barely a thought of eternity.Billy Graham
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Eternity is a negative idea clothed with a positive name. Paley
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No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.Farrar
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Eternity, thou pleasing dreadful thought through what variety of untried being through what new scenes and changes must we pass! The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me; but shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.Addison
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Eternity itself cannot restore the loss struck from the minute.Old Proverb
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Eternity, eternity, when shall I come to you at last?..in eternity where we will love with the glance of the soul. St. Elizabeth Seton
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Some bend eternity into time for the imagination. Conceived in this way, eternity produces an enchanting effect. One does not know whether it is a dream or actuality.Soren Kierkegaard
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We have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only one short hour before sunset in which to win them.Robert Moffat
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Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.Thomas Watson
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If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideas in the lives of others.St Truett Cathy
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One instant is eternity; eternity is in the now. When you see through this one instant, you see through the one who sees.Wumen Huikai
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Every situation— not every moment— is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.Goethe
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Time is too slow for those who wait / Too swift for those who fear / Too long for those who grieve / Too short for those who rejoice / But for those who love, time is eternity.Henry Van Dyke
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through the fabric of illusion.Ansel Adams
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In eternity everything is just beginning.Elias Canetti