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“Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence”
Vincent van Gogh Quotes |
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“I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.”
Nicolas Cage Quotes |
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“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.”
Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes |
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“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
John Lennon Quotes |
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“Eternity is really long, especially near the end”
Woody Allen Quotes |
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“Forever is composed of nows.”
Emily Dickinson Quotes |
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“The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”
Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
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“Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought!
Through what variety of untried being,
Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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“Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high,
The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,
Hush, ye will say, it is eternity!
This is the glimmering verge of heaven, and there
The columns of the heavenly palaces.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes Source: The Tomb
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“The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes Source: Works (vol. III, p. 143), (Bohn's edition)
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“Eternity forbids thee to forget.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Lara (canto I, st. 23)
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“Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal Now does always last.”
Abraham Cowley Quotes Source: Davideis (bk. I)
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“Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise
Up between two eternities!”
Abraham Cowley Quotes Source: Ode on Life and Fame (l. 18)
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“If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity
is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short
parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as
it is, though time had never been.”
Dr. John Donne Quotes Source: Devotions (XIV, Meditation)
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“I have just got a new theory of eternity.”
Dr. John Donne Quotes Source: Devotions (XIV, Meditation)
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“The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the
universe).
[Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]”
Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) Quotes Source: De Rerum Natura (III, 817)
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“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through
it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over
rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are
timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of
the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
Norman Fitzroy Maclean Quotes Source: A River Runs Through It
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“That golden key
That opes the palace of eternity.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Comus (l. 13)
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“(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Comus (l. 13)
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“This speck of life in time's great wilderness
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
The past, the future, two eternities!”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan (st. 42)
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“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and
that is eternity.”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan (st. 42)
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“The time will come when every change shall cease,
This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:
No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze;
Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now shall ever last.”
Francesco Petrarch Quotes Source: Triumph of Eternity (l. 117)
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“Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
In some dread moment. by the fates assign'd,
Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;
And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last
The speed that spins the future and the past:
And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,
Awful eternity shall reign alone.”
Francesco Petrarch Quotes Source: Triumph pf Eternity (l. 102)
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“Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the
minutes.
[Ger., Was man von der Minute ausgeslagen
Gibt keine Ewigkeit zuruck.]”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes Source: Resignation (st. 18)
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