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Quotes About Eternity

What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?
~ Iain Banks
She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by.
~ Ilona Andrews
Time does not die; only people.
~ J. F. Lawton
Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Time keeps on... slippin'... slippin'... slippin' into the future.
~ J.R. Ward
I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.
~ James Branch Cabell
Forever is a very long time Peter
~ James M. Barrie
Time to die. -Evil Angel
~ James Patterson
Time went by, which is what time does, what it is.
~ James Sallis
Inside every human being, there is unlimited time and space.
~ Janet Fitch
Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.
~ Jean Baptiste Massillon
I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
~ Jean Houston
What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?
~ Jeanette Winterson
A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.
~ Jeff Koons
In antihistory, time is an illusion.
~ Jill Lepore
Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.
~ John Dryden
The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer for if one wretch be damned by your neglect.
~ John Dryden
He hath shook hands with time.
~ John Ford
Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be,-- Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the good.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.
~ John Keats
Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
~ John Milton
Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.
~ John Milton
Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
~ John Milton