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Quotes About Eternity

The peace of the world concerns only body and time but the peace, the joy, that Christ gives enriches the soul for eternity
~ T. B. Joshua
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.
~ Mircea Eliade
Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.
~ Thales
History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.
~ John Smith
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us
~ Sappho
Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
~ Albert Einstein
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
~ James Thurber, The 13 Clocks
Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.
~ Mircea Eliade
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
~ Andrew Marvell
Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance.
~ T. B. Joshua
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
~ H. G. Wells
Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.
~ Roger Angell
For those who love... time is eternity.
~ Henry Van Dyke
What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.
~ Harold S. Kushner
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
~ William Faulkner
It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.
~ Anne Graham Lotz
We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
~ O. Henry
Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'
~ Jimmy Page
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.
~ Mario Benedetti
No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.
~ Nnamdi Azikiwe