#eternity

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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. ↗

— Helen Hayes

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Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity. ↗

— Helen Hayes

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And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires. ↗

— Elias Hicks

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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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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. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

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Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption. ↗

— Andre Bazin

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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

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