#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

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

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

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. ↗

— Jean Paul

#around #away #coming #concealed #distant

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker. ↗

— William Ames

#creature #eternity #exists #god #maker

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

— Jerome K. Jerome

#eternity #shadow #time #upon #world

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#feeling #i #i do #speak #want

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history. ↗