#eternity

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#born #bring #concerning #depths #diminution

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

— Herman Melville

#eternity #her #hope #loose #perishable

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#biggest #complaint #culture #enough #eternity

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity! ↗

— Max Muller

#beautiful things #best #day #day to day #enjoy

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#am #body #eternity #flowers #grow

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ambition #among #aphorism #book #does

I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#being #believe #course #death #eternity

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning. ↗

— James Otis

#dear #eternity #flash #god #god almighty

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see. ↗

— Joy Page

#born #ecstasy #eternity #filled #finding

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#between #dead #eternity #folks #gone