These eternity quotes will inspire you. Eternity infinite time or a state to which time has no application; timelessness or endless life after death.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging eternity quotes, eternity sayings, and eternity proverbs.
Famous Eternity Quotes
- “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.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “When Time is spent, Eternity begins.” ~ Helen Hunt Jackson
- “Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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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
- “What nature creates has eternity in it.” ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “Eternity is the now that does not pass away.” ~ Saint Augustine
- “A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.” ~ Brigitte Bardot
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“There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.” ~ Abraham Kuyper
- “Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.” ~ Helen Hayes
- “What we do in life ripples in eternity.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “It gives me a deep comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.” ~ Helen Keller
- “A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end – and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.” ~ Maynard James Keenan
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“Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “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.” ~ Michael Ende
- “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Thou knowest ’tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” ~ Khalil Gibran
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“Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.” ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- “All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.” ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Lives in eternity’s sunrise.” ~ William Blake
- “We don’t have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.” ~ Susan L. Taylor
- “There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever… One exists in eternity, one has become eternal… One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.” ~ Terence McKenna
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“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.” ~ William Blake
- “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.” ~ Clayton Christensen
- “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” ~ Henry David Thoreau , Eternity quotes life
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“Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “For those who love… time is eternity.” ~ Henry Van Dyke
- “The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time; it exists in the past and the future. And remember, time consists of only two tenses, the past and the future. The present is not part of time, the present is part of eternity.” ~ Rajneesh
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“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 sunrise.” ~ William Blake
- “Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.” ~ Madame de Stael , Eternity quotes love
- “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” ~ Henry Adams
- “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.” ~ Eugene Ionesco
- “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.” ~ Catherine McAuley
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“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” ~ William Blake
- “In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.” ~ Herman Melville
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“Eternity forbids thee to forget.” ~ Lord Byron.
- “For a person who is dying only eternity counts.” ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
- “Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.” ~ Joseph Addison
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“Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!” ~ Paul Gauguin
- “Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.” ~ William Blake
- “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Eternity is not the hereafter…this is it. If you don’t get it here you won’t get it anywhere.” ~ Joseph Campbell
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“In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who’ve gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.” ~ Rita Dove
- “Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.” ~ James Broughton
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“Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.” ~ Friedrich Schiller
- “Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.” ~ John Milton
- “Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.” ~ Paul Tillich
- “Eternity isn’t some later time. Eternity isn’t a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.” ~ Joseph Campbell
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“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- “I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “This life is only a prelude to eternity.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.” ~ Edvard Munch
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“After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.” ~ Joy Page
- “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
- “Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality!” ~ Heinrich Heine
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“Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “I have just got a new theory of eternity.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.” ~ Khalil Gibran
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“Space is to place as eternity is to time.” ~ Joseph Joubert
- “We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.” ~ Virginia Woolf
- “There are tons of people Id like to freeze for all of eternity, but we won’t go into that!” ~ Holly Marie Combs
- “I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.” ~ Keir Dullea
