Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Quotes about eternity page 5
“Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia.”
Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero
Source: The Lost Hero
Charles Baudelaire book Le Spleen de Paris
IX: "Le Mauvais Vitrier" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose_-_IX._Le_Mauvais_Vitrier<br><br>(fr) Mais qu'importe l'éternité de la damnation à qui a trouvé dans une seconde l'infini de la jouissance? <br class="br">Le spleen de Paris (1862) <br class="br">Variant: What matters an eternity of damnation to someone who has found in one second the infinity of joy? <br class="br">Source: Paris Spleen
Sarah Strohmeyer (1950) American writer
Source: Kindred Spirits
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet
Variant: Genius is eternal patience.
“To be wise is to be eternally curious.”
Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
“Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future… eternal beauty.”
Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist
“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Commentary on the Psalms http://dhspriory.org/thomas/english/PsalmsAquinas/ThoPs0.htm , Introduction
“I'll tell you this —
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
"The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)" on the albums L. A. Woman (1971) and An American Prayer (1978)
Variant: No heavenly power will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer
Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (1934): "Warning"
Misattributed
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
To Carl Stumpf (1 January 1886)
1920s, The Letters of William James (1920)
Variant: Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
“In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Henry Miller book Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman
Source: Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), p. 257: Let us swear an eternal friendship. Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. The Rovers
Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
Source: A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
“There are moments that have a certain flavor of eternity”
Marc Levy book Vous revoir
Source: Vous revoir
“You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.”
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here For?
“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”
Isaac Asimov book I, Robot
“The Evitable Conflict”, p. 189
Source: I, Robot (1950)
Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
“This club is for members only. But once you join, membership lasts for an eternity.”
Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer
Source: The Coffin Club
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
Source: Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions
“The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity”
Isaac Asimov The End of Eternity
Source: The End of Eternity
“No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.”
Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
“Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.”
Georgette Heyer book Cotillion
Source: Cotillion
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki book Rich Dad Poor Dad
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Source: Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.”
Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870) French poet
Source: Maldoror = Les Chants de Maldoror, together with a translation of Lautréamont's Poésies
“It was the meanest moment of eternity.”
Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery!”
Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars
Source: Pretty Little Liars
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
"Bright Star" (1819)
Context: Bright star! would I were stedfast as thou art-
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores.
“The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.”
Milan Kundera book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
“… I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity…”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2009, Farewell speech to the nation (January 2009)
Context: As we address these challenges – and others we cannot foresee tonight – America must maintain our moral clarity. I have often spoken to you about good and evil. This has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise. Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere. Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right. This nation must continue to speak out for justice and truth. We must always be willing to act in their defense and to advance the cause of peace.