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Quotes About Eternity

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
~ Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Universe consists of frozen light.
~ David Bohm
The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.
~ Carl Sagan
How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?
~ Louis Pasteur
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
~ George Santayana
It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.
~ Jonas Salk
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God.
~ Johannes Kepler
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
~ Arthur Koestler
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
~ Jules Verne
We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
This moment there is all that will ever be or has ever been. All the events of all of our lives are going-on simultaneously. There is no beginning and there is no ending. There's only this moment.
~ Frederick Lenz
Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.
~ Roger Joseph Boscovich
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
~ Henri Poincare
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
~ Walt Whitman
All science is transcendental or else passes away.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.
~ Stephen Hawking
I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done.
~ William Temple
We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We are all star stuff.
~ Carl Sagan
Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into being for a while and then vanish.
~ Frederick Lenz
Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top.
~ Edgar Wilson Nye
There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.
~ Francis Bacon
There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.
~ Frederick Lenz
The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.
~ Horace