Top 100 For Eternity Quotes
#1. Oh my God. For most of eternity, I won't exist. That leaves two options: live forever or destroy the universe. Hm... I may have to quit my day job for this.
Zach Weinersmith
#2. There are only two persons you can never, ever escape, not for one moment, either in time or in eternity: God and yourself.
Peter Kreeft
#3. True happiness isn't something that is achieved only once and continues; it is something we must strive for again and again.
Terry Lander
#4. The difference between God an I is that everyday, I too deal with people who don't love but I have no desire to kill them or wish them to suffer for all of eternity for it
Anonymous
#6. Find something to believe in, Carter, other than your work. Because when you leave this life, you leave work behind. If that's all you have, then you have nothing. And eternity is a long time for nothing.
David Baldacci
#7. This, for eternity. He closed his eyes and wished. Her eyelashes on his cheek, her thighs on his waist, the first consummation of this terrifying thing they'd done. Marriage meant forever.
Lauren Groff
#8. Jesus Christ was a simple man walked around, did a few miracles, said a few things and died. It was enough for him to say what he felt and glow with the light of eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#9. I cannot conceive an intention in God that Christ should satisfy his justice for the sin of them that were in hell some thousands of years before, and yet be still resolved to continue their punishment on them to all eternity.
John Owen
#11. You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.
James Joyce
#12. She held his stare, waiting for a clue to his intentions - a smile, a nod, even a frown. But he just looked straight at her, his eyes boring holes in her, reaching inside and lighting a fuse line of heat down to her belly. It seemed to last an eternity, that stare.
Maggie LaCroix
#13. By praying in Jesus' name, we petition God to make our life shine for Christ's glory and eternity's purposes.
Bryan Chapell
#14. A little while, we are in eternity; before we find ourselves there, let us do much for Christ.
Ann Hasseltine Judson
#15. Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.
Gregory Maguire
#16. ::I am yours, beloved. As you are mine. For all of eternity ... ::
M.L. Rhodes
#17. It's a really, really scary thing to stand here, to put words in people's mouths to say to God. It's terrifying to me. You potentially could mess someone up for...I don't know, eternity.
David Crowder
#18. We ask for our daily crumb of love. We are given a ton for eternity, which is death.
Georges Perros
#19. Second, you are alive. For the tiniest moment in the span of eternity you have the miraculous privilege to exist.
Bill Bryson
#20. Now is the best time to start becoming the person we eventually want to be - not only 20 years from now but also for all eternity.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#21. In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.
Brian O'Driscoll
#22. It's such a beautiful question, Luce. I adore you for asking it, and I wish I could explain it better. All I can tell you is this: The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
Lauren Kate
#23. Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.
Russell Green
#24. There are two sensations of skin you will always remember in your lifetime; the first time you fall in love-and that person holds your hand-and the first time your child grasps your finger. In each of those times, you are sealed to the other for eternity.
Alyson Richman
#25. Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,
as if the short spring days were an eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
#26. We are on a journey through the inward space of the heart, a journey not measured by the hours of our watch or the days of the calendar; for it is a journey out of time into eternity.
Kallistos Ware
#29. When we ask for heaven, we are asking for stasis. A form of comfort that will last for eternity. Yes, that is what we all want, the way we understand happiness.
Ruben Papian
#30. Dorian panted, dropping his head to her shoulder, he
whispered, his voice gruff, "Will you be mine for all eternity?
Amanda J. Greene
#31. For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.
Anton Chekhov
#32. If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.
William Blake
#33. Wise men perish,
senseless men perish.
Death, the great equalizer
comes for both, takes both,
as eternity draws close,
and Christ comes forth.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#34. Einstein created an unstoppable "intellectual chain reaction," an avalanche of pulsing, chattering neurons and memes that will ring for an eternity
Clifford A. Pickover
#35. An all-loving god would surely not damn his children to an eternity of torture simply for being born into a culture that believes in the wrong deity, follows the wrong holy book or attends the wrong type of church services.
Armin Navabi
#36. In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.
David A. Bednar
#38. An infinitely unpleasant fraction of a second is a small price to pay for the opportunity to stride across eternity.
R. Curtis Venture
#40. I love you with all the shadows in the world for eternity.
Pepper Winters
#41. Sin always overpromises and underdelivers, while righteousness pays dividends for eternity...
Nothing is more illogical than sin. It's the epitome of poor judgment. It's temporary insanity with eternal consequences. And we have no alibi, save the cross of Jesus Christ.
Mark Batterson
#42. A moment is a mighty thing
Beyond the soul's imagination;
For in it, though we trace it not,
How much there crowds of varied lot
How much of life, life cannot see,
Darts onward to eternity!
Robert Montgomery
#43. They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.
Gunter Grass
#44. Forget vampires," he laughed dismissively.
"Who wants to drink blood for eternity? What we have discovered is far more seductive and a great deal more dangerous ...
Pat Spence - Blue Moon
#45. The concern was about getting the beginning right, and then life and eternity would take care of themselves. We have been preoccupied with getting the end right, for some reason.
Richard Rohr
#46. When a person becomes a legend, the very thing that makes them human and knowable is killed off, so it's like being killed over and over and over again, for all eternity.
Miriam Toews
#47. Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.
Ptolemy
#48. Please don't let it be really hot here.' New Orleans in August was about as hot as he wanted to deal with. And he definitely didn't want to smell rotten eggs for eternity. He'd had enough of Kyrian's dirty laundry for that.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#49. I have accepted that the world is a perpetually moving beacon, with a never-ending supply of new possibilities. And there is always room for second chances when you have eternity.
R.R. Washburn
#50. If I got to know her, and she knew who I really was, she would despise me. And I would rather stay in the shadows for all of eternity than face Grace's hatred. I was still a coward.
Amanda Cerreto
#51. I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.
Clayton Christensen
#52. O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#53. It seemed Eve's bite from the apple of knowledge was a debt women were doomed to pay for eternity.
Dan Brown
#54. Dor remembered Victor's voice.
And while they deepen with age, voices
are, to one destined to listen for eternity,
as distinct as a fingerprint. Dor knew it
was him the moment Victor spoke in the
shop.
Mitch Albom
#55. Jesus has thrilled and satisfied the heart and mind of the Father for eternity. He must be all-sufficient for you.
Michael Reeves
#56. What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.
Oscar Wilde
#57. We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
Al Stewart
#58. Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.
Jonathan Sacks
#59. Time was the invention of men who would confine the ocean and bottle the wind.
Eternity is too short to fulfill the promise of love my sould holds for you.
Kassandra Sims
#60. In Christendom he too is a Christian, goes to church every Sunday, hears and understands the parson, yea, they understand one another; he dies; the parson introduces him into eternity for the price of $10 - but a self he was not, and a self he did not become ... .
Ernest Becker
#61. And when it's all done, when there's no one left you'll come back for me. And tell me who I am and why I have to do what I do. And explain 'Eternity.' You'll come back
Grant Morrison
#62. There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how can we keep the bonds of our humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity?
Carlos Castaneda
#63. May I view all things in the mirror of eternity, waiting for the coming of my Lord, listening for the last trumpet call, hastening unto the new heaven and earth. Order
Anonymous
#64. For him, I had done this-for him I'd gladly wrecked myself and my immortal soul.
And now I had an eternity to live with it.
Sarah J. Maas
#65. Remember that I will be here', he said resolutely. 'For an eternity ( ... ). I would wait for you for an eternity.
P.C. Cast
#66. "Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew not how to love Jesus Christ, our knowledge shall profit us nothing to eternal life. But if we know how to love Jesus Christ, we shall know all things, and shall be happy for eternity.
Alphonsus Liguori
#67. That's the difference between most oppressed peoples of the world and American blacks. They vow never to forget, and we want everything expunged from our record, sealed and filed away for eternity.
Paul Beatty
#68. Oh! would that we were lying side by side in the same grave, hand in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, gently caressing a finger
that would suffice for my eternity!
Victor Hugo
#69. A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Brigitte Bardot
#70. You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time. Even if you are asking God to restrain their evil actions,
you should also be praying that He will change their hearts. Only eternity will reveal the impact of our prayers for others.
Billy Graham
#71. Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#72. The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear. The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity.
Leo Tolstoy
#73. He knew what he was. He knew what he was capable of. He also knew that if he broke her, he'd despise himself for all eternity.
Nalini Singh
#74. All bores me in the world of facts, I see an end, a limit to all things and my heart thirsts for the infinite and for eternity.
Marianne Von Werefkin
#75. My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it - all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity - , but to love it ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#76. A. W. Tozer once said, "Eternity won't be long enough to discover all that God is or praise him for all that he's done."6
Mark Batterson
#77. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from his noisy cramped surroundings into the silence of the high mountains where the eye ranges freely through the still pure air and fondly traces out the restful contours apparently built for eternity.
Robert M. Pirsig
#78. Look within. The heart is the foundation of virtue; and it is for eternity ready to do virtuous works.
Paul Delaroche
#79. Let me assure you that all of our pets, and animals of every kind will be with us for eternity on the Other Side.
Sylvia Browne
#80. We who are alive at this moment are only an infinitesimal part of something that has existed for eternity and will continue when there is no longer anything to show that earth existed. Still, we must feel and believe that we are all.
Liv Ullmann
#81. She was his. The lifemate he had endured centuries of emptiness waiting for. She was his world. The light. The colors he thought he had lost forever. She was the ecstasy he never knew existed. And she was with him for eternity.
Christine Feehan
#82. Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.
Thomas Browne
#83. For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions.
Timothy Snyder
#84. Voice. And while they deepen with age, voices are, to one destined to listen for eternity, as distinct as a fingerprint.
Mitch Albom
#85. Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein
#86. I would rather spend money on something, that fulfills me for eternity. Rather, than something that fulfills me for only an hour or two.
Mary Sage Nguyen
#88. Being Mistreated is the most important condition of mortality, for eternity itself depends on how we view those who mistreat us.
James L. Ferrell
#89. Sometimes I think I'm an alien that accidentally fell off the mother ship, destined to wander among clueless earthling parents for all eternity.
Sarah Ockler
#90. These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.
Andrei Codrescu
#91. We walk this planet for such a short time. In the overall scheme of things, our lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. So have the wisdom to enjoy the journey and savor the process.
Robin S. Sharma
#92. Daisy Bowman," he said unevenly, "I'd spend eternity in hell for one hour with you." "Is that how long it takes? An hour?" His reply was rueful. "Sweetheart, at this point it would be a miracle if I lasted one minute.
Lisa Kleypas
#93. Dear God, I understand that if I fail to believe in you, I'll burn in hell for eternity. Thanks for being such a good sport about it.
Scott Dikkers
#94. I give ye my body to protect ye, my heart to love ye, and my soul for all eternity. I am yours.
Victoria Roberts
#95. Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#96. We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
Paulo Coelho
#97. Once I got to know you, I would come to find it was that I wouldn't want to watch another sun rise or set without knowing you're mine. I don't have a lot to offer you yet, but without you, I'll never be anything. Together, we can do anything, and I promise to keep you safe for all of eternity.
Jody Morse
#98. Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find their lives such a burden and why were they always waiting for something?
Andrei Platonov
#99. Sorry I kept you waiting so
long."
His smile brought one to her face.
"I don't mind. I'd wait an eternity
for you.
Roxanne Kade
#100. Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
Thomas Carlyle
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