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Quotes About Eternity

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
~ Matthew
Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.
~ Isaac Watts
Will you be satisfied with the fruit of your life's work? Will the efforts you are making now bring you satisfaction when the things of time are receding, and eternity looms ahead?
~ Raymond L. Cox
Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou, thyself, movest alone.
~ James MacPherson
O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever.
~ Bible
Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
~ Bible
The future is wider than vision, and has no end.
~ Donald G. Mitchell
The past is never dead-it is not even past.
~ William Faulkner
In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.
~ Henrietta Zolde
Truth has no beginning.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God.
~ John Foster
Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go to the place from which I shall not return.
~ Bible
The present is elastic to embrace infinity.
~ Louis Anspacher
He who lives in the present lives in eternity.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Today Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
~ Simone Weil
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Patterns of the past echo in the present and resound through the future.
~ Dhyani Ywahoo
The present is the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
~ James Joyce
Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
~ Saint Isidore of Seville
T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter, the day's delight!
~ Robert Browning
There's never an end for the sea.
~ Samuel Beckett
One thought fills immensity.
~ William Blake
Every second is of infinite value.
~ Johann von Goethe