(426 quotes found)
“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
William Blake
“We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it's one little room, like a bathhouse in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that'”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error”
Robert Hall
“Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity”
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.”
Buddha
“We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation”
Tom Stoppard
“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
“In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.”
Christopher Fry
“Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.”
Eugene Ionesco
“Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.”
Albert Camus
