I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.
—Audrey Niffenegger in The Time Traveler’s Wife
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
—Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
—Theodore Parker
Instead of bucking your head against a stone wall… sit quietly with hands folded and wait for the wall to crumble. If you're willing to wait an eternity, it may happen in the twinkling of an eye. For walls often give way quicker than the proud spirit which rules us. Don't sit and pray that it will happen! Just sit and watch it happen.
—Henry Miller
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
—Hermann Hesse
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
—Henry David Thoreau
Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.
—Michael Bassey Johnson
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
—Tom Stoppard
Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.
—Liane Moriarty in The Husband's Secret
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
—James Huneker
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
—Egon Schiele
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer
God glows and flames… Eternity, believe it or not; it's as real as shit.
—Aldous Huxley in Island
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
—Rita Rudner