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Eternity quotes

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“Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“Only the dead stay 17 for ever.” Haruki Murakami, “Norwegian Wood” - 1987

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.” Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” - 1854

“Eternity! O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?” James Joyce, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” - 1916

“Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know Time's thievish progress to eternity.” William Shakespeare, “Shakespeare's Sonnets” - 1609

“That the knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not of aught perishing and transient.” Plato, “The Republic”

“One Life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us forevermore!” Thomas Carlyle, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History” - 1841

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“Before me there were no created things, Only eterne, and I eternal last. All hope abandon, ye who enter in!” Dante Alighieri, “Divine Comedy” - 1320

“Through me the way is to the city dolent; Through me the way is to eternal dole; Through me the way among the people lost.” Dante Alighieri, “Divine Comedy” - 1320

“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering?” Albert Camus, “The Plague” - 1947

“That which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home and the World” - 1916

“If one had to fill in, little by little, the gap between day and night, it would take an eternity to do it. But the sun rises and the darkness is dispelled—a moment is sufficient to overcome an infinite distance.” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home and the World” - 1916

“Even Nothing cannot last forever.” Neil Gaiman, “American Gods” - 2001

“I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter—the Eternity they have entered—where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“But, notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.” Baruch Spinoza, “Ethics” - 1677

“Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour—but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands—and who knows what to do with it?” Tennessee Williams, “A Streetcar Named Desire” - 1947

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