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Quotes About Eternity

Everywhere is here and every when is now.
~ Dante Alighieri
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
~ André Bazin
The True One was there from time immemorial. He is there today and ever there you will find. He never died nor will he ever die. ... Look within, you will see Him there enshrined.
~ Guru Nanak
What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.
~ Osamu Tezuka
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
~ Alice Walker, The Color Purple
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
~ Jeremy Taylor
Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
~ Ray Kurzweil
Every time we look at the Blessed Sacrament our place in heaven is raised forever.
~ Gertrude the Great
According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.
~ Grazia Deledda
And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.
~ William Faulkner
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
~ D.T. Suzuki
Time means little; I never notice its passing.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Even God cannot change the past.
~ Agathon
Love isn't restricted by time because every minute and every second creates beautiful memories.
~ Jaejoong
For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
~ Osbert Sitwell
What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.
~ J. I. Packer
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
~ Michael Ende
The family is the most important unit in time and in eternity and, as such, transcends every other interest in life.
~ Howard W. Hunter
We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely sure - the eternal present, for it is always now.
~ M. William Phelps
I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
~ Alan W. Watts
We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
~ Thomas W. Bennett