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Quotes About Eternity

But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—
~ Alasdair Gray
Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!
~ Alexander Smith
O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!
~ Alice McDermott
I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.
~ Ally Carter
Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?" "The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live.
~ Amanda Hocking
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
~ Andre Malraux
What is meant by believing in Christ but just going with trusting and loving hearts, and committing to His love and power ourselves, our souls, and all that concerns us for time and eternity?
~ Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
TIME is not a thing that's ours to lose.
~ Ani DiFranco
God gives us time. And who has time for God?
~ Ann Voskamp
There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.
~ Ann-Marie MacDonald
When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen
~ Anne Bradstreet
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
~ Anne Carson
Time can tick when there is no clock.
~ Anne Rice
Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.
~ Annie Dillard
Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.
~ Annie Dillard
A dance to the music of time.
~ Anthony Powell
My bits of time play with eternity.
~ Antonio Porchia
Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
There's always world enough and time.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.
~ Barten Holyday