Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Henry David Thoreau

Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Henry David Thoreau

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Henry David Thoreau

At a given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, for all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

Ugo Betti

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

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

Woody Allen

The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Jeremy Taylor

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Christopher Fry

It has felt like an eternity.

Vera Wang

Eternity? ... That is one hell of a movie.

James Dean

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

Agatha Christie

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

H. R. Haweis

I don't feel like I'm painting. I feel like I'm doing an investigation of eternity.

Melba Martinez

A teacher affects eternity.

Henry Adams

We look at it this way. She is spending eternity with our heavenly father.

James Rogers

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

Henry Adams

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Kahlil Gibran

Expect no greater happiness in Eternity, than to rejoice in God.

Benjamin Whichcote

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

Jerome K. Jerome

When you are lying there with a woman who is bleeding, it seems like an eternity.

Richard Gross

Because he is my child, it seems like every step takes an eternity.

Amy Stockton

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

James Gibbons Huneker

Maybe some days he actually believes he was an angel of mercy. Let us correct that: He was a demon from the lowest depths of hell. Burn in hell, Mr. Cullen, for all eternity.

Dolores Stasienko

They take into consideration that it should not be easy to name a mountain for all eternity.

Terry Cunningham

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

Ambrose Bierce

There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.

Kathleen Norris

You just never know when you're going into eternity.

Sheilah Graham

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

Edwin Hubbel Chapin