Quotes about Eternity
Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation
— George Bernard Shaw
O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long?
— George Bernard Shaw
Here there is nothing but love and beauty. Ugh! it is like sitting for all eternity at the first act of a fashionable play, before the complications begin.
— George Bernard Shaw
Love once, love always
— George Eliot
In their death they were not divided.
— George Eliot
But God lasts when everything else is gone. What shall we do if he is not our friend?
— George Eliot
Three words have often been used as the trumpet-call of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty - pronounced with terrible earnestness. How inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable was the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third.
— George Eliot
I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
— George Eliot
These things have not changed. The sunlight and shadows bring their old beauty and waken the old heart-strains at morning, noon, and eventide; the little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty; and men still yearn for the reign of peace and righteousness
— George Eliot
Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.
— George Eliot
What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
— George Eliot
She saw the years to come stretch before her like an autumn afternoon, filled with resigned memory. Life to her could never more have any eagerness; it was a solemn service of gratitude and patient effort. She walked in the presence of unseen witnesses—of the Divine love that had rescued her, of the human love that waited for its eternal repose until it had seen her endure to the end.
— George Eliot