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Quotes About Eternity

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
~ Charles Lamb
All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.
~ Elizabeth Smart
My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The moment has no time.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
~ Thomas Wolfe
If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us, not time. In fact, time doesn't exist.
~ Julian Barbour
How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.
~ Meher Baba
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
We're only immortal for a limited time.
~ Neil Peart
With the Eucharist, therefore, heaven comes down to earth, the tomorrow of God descends into the present and it is as if time remains embraced by divine eternity.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.
~ Richard Bach
Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.
~ Robert Musil
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
~ Simone Weil
The little time that remains between this moment and our death, should quicken our diligence to inherit the endless and unchangeable eternity of God.
~ Stephen Charnock
All time is unreedemable.
~ T. S. Eliot
All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.
~ T. S. Eliot
What you call man is time.
~ Terence McKenna
I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time
~ Thucydides
Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.
~ Tony Blair
time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?
~ Tracy K. Smith
Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time
~ Tracy Kidder
The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
~ William Blake
I'm glad He had the never while staring into space, to give this universe a time and place.
~ George Strait