Quotes for: eternity

Quotes for: eternity

It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.
Arthur Rimbaud - L'Éternité

It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.

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Be humanity evermore our goal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time, that moving image of an immovable eternity.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Eternity is like a wheel, which has neither beginning nor end.
Hildegard of Bingen

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If life is ephemeral, the fact of having lived a life which is ephemeral is an eternal fact.
Vladimir Jankélévitch - La Mort

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

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 - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

What one refuses in a minute
No eternity will return.
Friedrich Schiller

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Art repeats the eternal Ideas apprehended through pure contemplation, the essential and abiding element in all the phenomena of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation

Truth endures forever.
Blaise Pascal

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Blaise Pascal

The mysterious way leads inwards. Eternity with its worlds — the past and future — is in ourselves or nowhere.
Novalis - Pollen

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein

Light had its allotted time; but timeless and infinite is the reign of the night − the duration of sleep eternal.
Novalis

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the body, but there remains of it something which is eternal.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch

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