Quotes about eternity

Eternity -- waste of time.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

— William Blake

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.

— William Blake

Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

— C. S. Lewis

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

— Martin Luther

Forever is a long bargain.

— German Proverb

The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.

— Jalal-Uddin Rumi

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?

— Tom Stoppard

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don't worry. It's all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended. There's nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression, they are like empty space. Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away? Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, the vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born.

— Jack Kerouac

Procreation annihilates eternity.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Eternity is a glorious word but eternity is ice.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.

— Dejan Stojanovic

All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated to go peacefully and enjoy the eternal nap.

— Dejan Stojanovic