Quotes about Eternity
Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Atom from atom yawns as far As moon from earth, or star from star.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A day is a miniature eternity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
True love transcends the unworthy object, and dwells and broods on the eternal, and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid of so much earth, and feels its independency the surer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson