Welcome to our collection of timeless reflections on eternity. Throughout human history, the concept of eternity has captivated philosophers, poets, and thinkers across cultures and civilizations. It represents an enigmatic realm beyond the constraints of time, where the finite meets the infinite, and the transient merges with the eternal.
Eternity inspires awe and wonder, prompting us to contemplate the mysteries of existence, the cosmos, and our place within it. It transcends the boundaries of comprehension, inviting us to explore the profound questions of life, death, and the nature of reality. From ancient scriptures to modern literature, from religious texts to scientific inquiries, humanity has grappled with the elusive nature of eternity, seeking to unravel its secrets and find meaning in its vast expanse.
Below, you will find a curated selection of quotes that delve into the essence of eternity, offering insights, perspectives, and contemplations from various sources throughout history. These words encapsulate the timeless wisdom and profound insights that humanity has gathered on this enigmatic topic. Feel free to ponder these quotes, incorporate them into your creative projects, or simply marvel at the depth of thought they evoke.
The sum of all sums is eternity. Lucretius
Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Yayoi Kusama
But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity. Alfred de Vigny
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Ludwig Wittgenstein
We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end. Ezra Taft Benson
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. Albert Camus
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends. Jeremy Taylor
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. Khalil Gibran
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths. Groucho Marx
I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity. Michael Servetus
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. Alfred Russel Wallace
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
I have just got a new theory of eternity. Albert Einstein
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. Henry David Thoreau
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! Paul Gauguin
Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity. Jerome K. Jerome
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit. Sri Aurobindo
Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate. Jim Harrison
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. Henry Van Dyke
What impact are you making, not only today, but for eternity? What impact are you making to leave a legacy? Kirk Cousins
I think hell’s a real place where real people spend a real eternity. Jerry Falwell
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? Emil Cioran
It’s ironic that in our culture everyone’s biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity. Dennis Miller
Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities. Rick Warren
The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity. Walter Martin
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. Virginia Woolf
A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end – and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. Maynard James Keenan
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Michael Ende
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. Isaac Bashevis Singer
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. Marcus Garvey
Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity. David A. Bednar
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise. William Blake
Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity. Eugene Kennedy
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams
When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it’s a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity. Rose Kennedy
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Henry David Thoreau
The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity. Christopher Buckley
The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping. George Muller
Lives in eternity’s sun rise. William Blake
We don’t have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here. Susan L. Taylor
I’m fascinated by the notion of a perpetual sound: a sound that won’t dissipate over time. Essentially, the opposite of a piano, because the notes never fade. I suppose, in literary terms, it would be like a metaphor for eternity. Ryuichi Sakamoto
Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought. Charles Spurgeon
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. Hermann Hesse
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. Brigitte Bardot
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods – it is the business of us all, here and now. Bob Brown
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. Edvard Munch
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. Khalil Gibran
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. James Huneker
When Time is spent, Eternity begins. Helen Hunt Jackson
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. Flannery O’Connor
If self-absorption, vague yearnings, and a nagging sense of incompleteness are sins, then surely I will burn for all eternity, and I will save you a seat. Colson Whitehead
The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin. Ellen G. White
We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original in the anger; the eternal nature is its root. Jakob Bohme
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. Madame de Stael
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity. Arthur Koestler
This is the artist, then, life’s hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty’s miser, glory’s slave. Tom Wolfe
Eternity’s a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it all going to end? Tom Stoppard
Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God. Catherine McAuley
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. Oscar Wilde
Venice is eternity itself. Joseph Brodsky
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I’m saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity. Philip Levine
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought. Mason Cooley
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity. Agatha Christie
A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day. Adoniram Judson
Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life. Wayne Dyer
Eternity is not something that begins after you’re dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ‘eternity’; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book – what everyone else does not say in a book. Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life! Russell M. Nelson
We were trying to build a car that would last, that had the quality of eternity. John DeLorean
We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that’s what I do. Tony Campolo
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity – love. And the story of a love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. Helen Hayes
I chose to be a maths teacher because I thought the marking would be easy. You’d just tick and cross, whereas if you’re an English teacher, you’ve got to read essays. Then they said I had to analyse the methodology. It takes an eternity, it’s insane! Romesh Ranganathan
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Khalil Gibran
What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity? Charles Studd
I propose to build for eternity. Filippo Brunelleschi
Eternity: a moment standing still for ever. James Montgomery
The olive tree is a tree full of health. It is a symbol of eternity. Of all things, it has peace attached to it. Carol Drinkwater
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. William Penn
The future is in our power. Let us, then, each morning, resolve to send the day into eternity in such a garb as we shall wish it to wear forever. And at night, let us reflect that one more day is irrevocably gone, indelibly marked. Adoniram Judson
In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity. David A. Bednar
Eternity is in love with the productions of time. William Blake
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. Ambrose Bierce
God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins? Sojourner Truth
If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It’s a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore. John Cooper Clarke
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In baseball 30 days is an eternity. Alex Rodriguez
Architecture aims at Eternity. Christopher Wren
Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity. David A. Bednar
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity… But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. Meister Eckhart
There are tons of people I’d like to freeze for all of eternity, but we won’t go into that! Holly Marie Combs
Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity. Jonathan Sacks
Prayer is the God-given communication link between Heaven and Earth, time and eternity, the finite and the infinite. Tony Evans
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man’s state cannot be changed after death. Emanuel Swedenborg
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. Bette Davis
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. Robert Green Ingersoll
Eligibility for a temple recommend is not based on financial worth. That has nothing whatever to do with it. It is based on consistent personal behavior, on the goodness of one’s life. It is not concerned with money matters, but rather with things of eternity. Gordon B. Hinckley