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“To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.” William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
“the Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time—for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.” C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“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
“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
“all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.” Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades
“Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then.” Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
“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
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.” John Keats, Endymion
“That which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“Even Nothing cannot last forever.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“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
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“These infinities represent an unending regress that goes on not just very far, but forever.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know Time's thievish progress to eternity.” William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
“Only the dead stay 17 for ever.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“forever is an incorrect concept” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“the first step to eternal life is you have to die.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“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
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“That the knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not of aught perishing and transient.” Plato, The Republic
“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
“Thou know'st 'tis common, all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“But, notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering?” Albert Camus, The Plague
“It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
“He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Before me there were no created things, Only eterne, and I eternal last. All hope abandon, ye who enter in!” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

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