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Quotes About Inf

The concept of time shuts off eternity.
~ Joseph Campbell
The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.
~ R. C. Sproul
The past, the future: - two eternities!
~ Thomas Moore
I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.
~ Robert Adams
Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.
~ Rumi
Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.
~ Stephen Hawking
And then, one day, my love, you come out of eternity.
~ Marguerite Duras
It's like one big lending library out there. A piece of what was once a star or something, a flower or a willow tree, when it is finished bein' that might be loaned away an' become a fish or a person's fingernail or evaporate into the sky and be a rainbow. That the—what did he call 'em?—stuff that makes your atoms up an' mine, that stuff mixed up a little different is the sum of all the stuff that's in existence.
~ Marianne Wiggins
The only point where eternity meets time is in the present.
~ Marianne Williamson
a world in a grain of sand | And a heaven in a wild flower'.
~ Marina Warner
I don't believe . Religion? Humans desperate to take out infinity insurance. Death? The great big nada . Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt.
~ Marisha Pessl
I was a ticking clock in a timeless world
~ Marisha Pessl
How was it possible scientists were able to locate the edge of the observable universe, the Cosmic Light Horizon ("Our universe is 13.7 billion light years long," wrote Harry Mills Cornblow, Ph.D., with astounding confidence in The ABCs of the Cosmos [2003]), and yet mere human beings stayed so fuzzy, beyond all calculation?
~ Marisha Pessl
Marisha Pessl
~ M. C. Escher
There is a level accessed in meditation that is beyond the neuron. This level has many names; one we could use is infinite awareness.
~ Marjorie Hines Woollacott
because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.
~ Mark Haddon
The rule for working out prime numbers is very simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether a very big number is a prime number or what the next one will be. […] Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
~ Mark Haddon
And this means that time is a mystery,not even a thing,and no one has ever solved the puzzle of what time is,exactly. And so, if you get lost in time it is like being lost in a desert,except that you can't see the desert because it's not a thing
~ Mark Haddon
What would happen if we took everything that exists in the universe, and divided it by one? I'll tell you. It would remain the same. So, therefore, how do we know that someone isn't doing that right now, at this very instant? It makes me shudder to think of it. We might be constantly divided by one, or multiplied by one for that matter, and we wouldn't even know it!
~ Mark Helprin
When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the universe, really, but proportion.
~ Mark Helprin
The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk.
~ Aristotle
those who inquire into the number of existents: for they inquire whether the ultimate constituents of existing things are one or many, and if many, whether a finite or an infinite plurality.
~ Aristotle