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Eternity Quotes - Page 16

Eternity: what a waste of time.

Eternity: what a waste of time.

Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.115, New Victoria Publishers

Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.

Matthew Pearl (2011). “The Dante Club: Historical Mystery”, p.31, Random House

When you are in pain, a moment is an eternity.

Matthew J. Kirby (2011). “Icefall”, p.169, Scholastic Inc.

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2708, Delphi Classics

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.28, Enhanced Media Publishing

habit is our idea of eternity.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.198

The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)”, p.692, e-artnow

There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.

Kathleen Norris (1981). “The middle of the world”

I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.

Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (1999). “Selected Non-fictions”, Viking Press

Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

John Milton (1732). “Milton's Paradise Lost”

Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.

John Milton (1873). “The third (fourth, fifth) book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter”, p.46

Eternity bids thee to forget.

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.279, Penguin