Eternity Quotes

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains."
-Henry David Thoreau

"At a given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, for all eternity, what was there? Nothing."
-Ugo Betti

"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

"The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end."
-Woody Allen

"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity."
-Johann Kaspar Lavater

"What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it."
-Isaac Bashevis Singer

"In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment."
-Christopher Fry

"It has felt like an eternity."
-Vera Wang

"Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity."
-Agatha Christie

"Eternity? ... That is one hell of a movie."
-James Dean

"Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself."
-H. R. Haweis

"I don't feel like I'm painting. I feel like I'm doing an investigation of eternity."
-Melba Martinez

"A teacher affects eternity."
-Henry Adams

"We look at it this way. She is spending eternity with our heavenly father."
-James Rogers

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
-Henry Adams

"Expect no greater happiness in Eternity, than to rejoice in God."
-Benjamin Whichcote

"Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity."
-Jerome K. Jerome

"When you are lying there with a woman who is bleeding, it seems like an eternity."
-Richard Gross

"Because he is my child, it seems like every step takes an eternity."
-Amy Stockton

"Great art is an instant arrested in eternity."
-James Gibbons Huneker

"Maybe some days he actually believes he was an angel of mercy. Let us correct that: He was a demon from the lowest depths of hell. Burn in hell, Mr. Cullen, for all eternity."
-Dolores Stasienko

"PRESENT, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."
-Ambrose Bierce

"They take into consideration that it should not be easy to name a mountain for all eternity."
-Terry Cunningham

"There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life."
-Kathleen Norris