| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Cowley | Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. |
| Abraham Cowley | Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities! |
| Bette Davis | I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. |
| Brigitte Bardot | A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. |
| Dr John Donne | If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; 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. |
| Dr John Donne | I have just got a new theory of eternity. |
| Edward Young | And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour? |
| Edwin Hubbel Chapin | Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. |
| Francesco Petrarch | The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. |
| Joseph Addison | Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. |
| Matthew Arnold | Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie, Hush, ye will say, it is eternity! This is the glimmering verge of heaven, and there The columns of the heavenly palaces. |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe. |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like Heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow. |
| Sir Thomas Browne | The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity. |
| Thomas Browne | The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity. |
| Thomas Moore | This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities! |
| Thomas Moore | From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. |
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