A human life is a schooling for eternity.

A human life is a schooling for eternity.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

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.

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.

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.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.

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.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

There are tons of people I'd like to freeze for all of eternity, but we won't go into that!

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.

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.

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

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.

Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

The sum of all sums is eternity.

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.