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Quotes About Eternity

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
~ Emile M. Cioran
IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.
~ Emily Dickinson
It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.
~ Francis James Grimke
No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.
~ Francis Quarles
Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.
~ Frank Yerby
Our larger body is eternity. Eventually, we return to the source in its undifferentiated form, in its absolute form, which is both form and formlessness, but we exist in that sea all the time.
~ Frederick Lenz
Reincarnation is an apprehension of a movement and the movement occurs in time. Without time, there is no reincarnation. Reincarnation is a reflection of time in this world.
~ Frederick Lenz
As spirits we have always existed in a generalized form, since we are all part of the universe. As individual spirits, we have existed for a timeless time.
~ Frederick Lenz
In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
~ Friedrich Schiller
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
~ Gaston Bachelard
If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.
~ George MacDonald
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
~ Henri Bergson
The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.
~ Herb Caen
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.
~ Hermann Hesse
There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.
~ Isaac Asimov
Jesus was the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.
~ John Mott
You have the possibility to give light a dimension in time.
~ Jonas Mekas
Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada