(328 quotes found)
“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
“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.”
Lord Acton
“This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.”
Thomas Wolfe
“Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.”
Albert Camus
“Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal”
Don Williams Jr
“Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound...”
Tom Stoppard
“Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”
Madame de Stael
“Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error”
Robert Hall
“I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.”
Bette Davis
“At a given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, for all eternity, what was there? Nothing.”
Ugo Betti
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