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Quotes About Eternal

There was no looking to the future. It was a moment without future.
~ Mary Balogh
And she was in his arms, her head pillowed against his shoulder, held to him, rocked against him. She closed her eyes and willed herself to remember every detail of this moment for the rest of her life. The hard muscularity of his body. The comfort of his arms and his shoulder. His cheek against the top of her head. The warmth and the smell of him. He and she, and their child between them. Perhaps thirty seconds. At the most a minute. A minute to last a lifetime.
~ Mary Balogh
I thought my punishment was to be eternal," her mother said. "It is the millstone I have carried about my neck for well nigh forty years. I thought I would carry it to my grave.
~ Mary Balogh
And in the very center of her vision—and of her heart and her life—Gerard, the man she had always loved and always would.
~ Mary Balogh
mathematics of eternity
~ Mary Doria Russell
Here, there, everywhere
~ Mary Downing Hahn
Activity not rooted in prayer is mere bombast and flurry. It may raise a great deal of dust and deafen many an ear, but it will never make a dent on things eternal. Activity which takes its strength from prayer and which looks to contemplatives to fill up its measure, just as contemplatives look to God's infantry to satisfy the burning missionary drive in their own hearts, will have God Himself for its eternal monument.
~ Mary Francis
Others likened Diana to Jack Kennedy. Both had died too soon and too suddenly, cut down in their prime, to be remembered always as youthful and vibrant. One dear friend consoled me by saying, "Remember, Mary, she'll always be thirty-six, young and beautiful." Another close friend wrote, "We'll never know what she's been spared.
~ Mary Robertson
You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, Praise the eternal justice of man!
~ Mary Shelley
What may not be expected in a country of eternal light
~ Mary Shelley
By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the demon who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict.
~ Mary Shelley
Yo en cambio llevaba un infierno dentro de mi, y nadie podría arrancarlo jamás
~ Mary Shelley
There, Margaret, the sun is for ever visible; its broad disk just skirting the horizon, and diffusing a perpetual splendour.
~ Mary Shelley
Frankenstein! you belong then to my enemy—to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I was cursed by some devil, and carried about with me my eternal hell; yet still a spirit of good followed and directed my steps, and
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Fashions come and go, but jawlines are eternal.
~ Maureen Johnson
We were defeated by the greed, the selfishness and the base, animal nature of men. It was the eternal conflict between spirit and matter, between soul and body. They would not renounce their bodies, which was all we asked of them.
~ Ayn Rand
Many things change with time, but certain basic human traits remain eternal: curiosity and empathy, the urge to know and the urge to connect.
~ Azar Nafisi
Old homecoming queens never die.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
no such thing as death in her lexicon, and that as long as I lived and you lived she would live, too, for we would carry the memory of her in our hearts for ever.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
of eternity.
~ Barry Eisler
Men cannot come any closer to immortality without going insane.
~ Barry Hughart
The right path leads to Elysium, the place of eternal happiness, but "the left-hand path torments / the wicked, leading down to Tartarus, path to doom" (Aeneid, Book 6, lines 631–32).
~ Bart D. Ehrman
The Father alone has existed forever. The Son was begotten by God before the world was created. But this means that he "is neither eternal nor coeternal . . . with the Father." God is above, beyond, and greater than all things, including Christ.
~ Bart D. Ehrman