Eternity Quotes

To love is the only thing that can occupy and fill up eternity. The infinite requires the inexhaustible.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

Nothing is lost, nothing wholly passes away, for in some way or another everything is perpetuated; and everything, after passing through time, returns to eternity.[Nada se pierde, nada pasa del todo, pues que todo se perpetúa de una manera o de otra, y todo, luego de pasar por el tiempo, vuelve a la eternidad.]

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.[Seule, dans le monde d’aujourd’hui, une philosophie de l’éternité peut justifier la non-violence.]

In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally — in short, with reason.

If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.[Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist.]

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Eternity is a kind of measure. But to be measured belongs not to God. Therefore it does not belong to Him to be eternal.[St. Thomas Aquinas]

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

All religions promise a reward beyond this life in eternity for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head, of the understanding.