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Quotes About Eternity

What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely
~ Gayle Forman
You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me.
~ Gayle Forman
The Orkney imagination is haunted by time.
~ George MacKay
History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.
~ George W. Bush
I wish, by the way, that I knew who separated Time from eternity; there seems only one thing to me, and I always feel that I am in eternity.
~ Georgiana Burne-Jones
There is a kind of immortality in every garden.
~ Gladys Taber
Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.
~ Gloria Naylor
As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.
~ Guy Finley
There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.
~ Harriet Martineau
Onward and sublime Will ever glide The silent stream of Time, That bears us on its tide.
~ Harvey Rice
It rolls in grandeur lone-- The stream of Time; And on its shores lie strown The wrecks of every clime.
~ Harvey Rice
[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old.
~ Helen Hooven Santmyer
Time is the measure of that which changes.
~ Helen Kieran Reilly
Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Invest time that will compound forever.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?
~ Henry Kirke White
Long hours trail in their purple and long years are lost in just this moment while our souls are near, our mouths separate.
~ Hilda Doolittle
Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks.
~ Howard Mansfield