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"But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are."
"He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it."
"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."
"The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity."
"How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity."
"Und dasTotsein ist mu« hsam und voller Nachholn, dass man allm a« hlich ein wenig Ewigkeit spu« rt. And being dead is hard work and full of retrieval before one can gradually feel a trace of eternity."
"Slow down? Rest? With all eternity before me?"
"Earnestness alone makes life eternity."
"Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters."
"No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep."
"It was the meanest moment of eternity."
"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"
"Read not the Times, read the Eternities."
"But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be."
"If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity"
"Time is just quantified eternity."
"Time is the image of eternity."
"We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity."
"A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist."
"The world of imagination is the world of eternity."
