Top 160 Eternity Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Eternity Quotes from famous people such as Michael Ende, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph Joubert, Camille Perri, William Blake, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that si

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
Michael Ende
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
Joseph Joubert
You know that secret novel you’ve been working on? The one that’s really about you and your friends and your psycho ex-girlfriend? The one that, if discovered, would socially annihilate you for eternity? Yeah, go ahead and burn it.
Camille Perri
Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
William Blake
I would like people to live in the present with eternity in mind. If there is, in fact, going to be rapture one day, in which we leave everything behind, shouldn’t that loosen our grip on our material possessions right now?
Robert Jeffress
Now I know there are people out there who will say that the election of Barack Obama meant that it was the end of racial discrimination for all eternity, right? But I work in the investment business, and we have a saying: The numbers do not lie.
Mellody Hobson
When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
Helen Hunt Jackson
Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.
Yayoi Kusama
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity… But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
Meister Eckhart
You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it’s nice, I can’t imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it’s kind of a nice thing to say, you know.
Conor Oberst
Eternity is not something that begins after you’re dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I always get forwarded these weird pictures of people getting Kenny Powers tattoos. That’s probably the craziest thing I’ve ever seen: Somebody will ink my face on their body for eternity.
Danny McBride
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ‘eternity’; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book – what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle
The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
Lucinda Franks
A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day.
Adoniram Judson
Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. ‘From Here to Eternity’ must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
Manny Farber
Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity – a crash, an illness, some shock to the system – to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you’re living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
Hampton Sides
‘Witches of East End’ is certainly wild, and so are a lot of other shows these days. But ‘Twin Peaks’ still holds the gold medal for strange. I think we’ll hang onto that for all of TV eternity!
Madchen Amick
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
Michael Ende
Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.
Richard Jefferies
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn
‘From Here to Eternity’ happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
Manny Farber
The soul is both the most fragile and most resilient thing about you; a healthy soul is what holds you together when your world falls apart. Since you will carry your soul into eternity, it’s worth checking up on it at least as often as your teeth.
John Ortberg
I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.
Michael Servetus
The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
Douglas Coupland
The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.
Matthew Simpson
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
Agatha Christie
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
James Broughton
When a person becomes a legend, the very thing that makes them human and knowable is killed off, so it’s like being killed over and over and over again, for all eternity.
Miriam Toews
You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind,

You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don’t mind, because I have eternity to rest.
Andres Segovia
I was always a little bit afraid because I found out at a very early age that once you make a record, all the mistakes and all the good things are there for eternity.
Johnny Mathis
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
John Dalberg-Acton
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Madame de Stael
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
Christopher Fry
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein
In the Mormon Church, we believe we can be married for all eternity, not till death do you part. As Mom was getting older, she was excited, truly excited, that within a few years she’d be with Dad again.
Clayton M. Christensen
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
Hermann Hesse
My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.
Thomas Goodwin
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
Taylor Caldwell
We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
Arthur Koestler
So this is it. Match point for eternity.
Boris Becker
My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
James Otis
Venice is eternity itself.
Joseph Brodsky
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
Herman Melville
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim
Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.
William Ames
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert Camus
To ask somebody to sit down and watch 30 minutes’ worth of an Internet video – on the Internet, that’s an eternity.
Sean Evans
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.
Frederic William Farrar
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
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Brigitte Bardot
Children are the inheritance of the Lord to us in this life and also in eternity. Eternal life is not only to have forever our descendants from this life. It is also to have eternal increase.
Henry B. Eyring
Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.
Rick Warren
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
James Huneker
The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence – a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.
Christian Lous Lange
Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.
Wayne Dyer
I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it’s blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn’t working can be painful.
Donny Osmond
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
Herman Melville
It is important for those of us who are Christian to re

It is important for those of us who are Christian to remember that our physical lives don’t last forever. Our souls will last an eternity, and thus we should place even more emphasis on the health of our souls than the health of our bodies.
Michael Huffington