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Quotes About Eternity

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
~ Thomas Carlyle
For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
~ Rachel Carson
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
~ Flannery O'Connor
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
~ Hermann Hesse
Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.
~ Richard Dawkins
Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
~ Pat Conroy
The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.
~ Stephen Hawking
There was a time when He was not.
~ Arius
I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.
~ J.A. Redmerski
Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events, from the world, from its pain. Timeless, eternal.
~ Lois Tilton
You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal
~ Martin Amis
That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.
~ Samuel Beckett
Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night.
~ Alfred the Great
Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.
~ Cornell Woolrich
I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.
~ Rajneesh
And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.
~ Robert Montgomery
The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time.
~ Elif Safak
What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.
~ Melanie Benjamin
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
~ Bruce Lee
What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
~ Émile Chartier
The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.
~ Meister Eckhart
Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez