“Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.”

Book I, lines 361-362
See also "One of our poets (which is it?) speaks of an everlasting now", Robert Southey, The Doctor, chap. xxv. p. 1
Davideis (1656)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last." by Abraham Cowley?
Abraham Cowley photo
Abraham Cowley 40
British writer 1618–1667

Related quotes

John Frusciante photo

“Everything is eternal
Nothingness does not exist
No thing has ever become nothing
And nothing has never become something
What is has always been and will always be”

John Frusciante (1970) American guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer

After the Ending
Lyrics, The Empyrean (2009)

Dejan Stojanovic photo

“Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing.”

Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman

“Light and Night,” p. 28
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Skywalking”

Eckhart Tolle photo

“Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Eckhart Tolle photo

“Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

A New Earth (2005)
Variant: Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Paul Tillich photo

“Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.”

Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher

Source: The Eternal Now

John Ruysbroeck photo
Teal Swan photo
Quintus Curtius Rufus photo

“Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.”
Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.

Quintus Curtius Rufus Roman historian

IV, 14, 19.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV

Related topics