eternity Quotes

The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday 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.

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

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.