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Quotations about eternity

Bertrand RussellI do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

 - Bertrand Russell

Tags:   eternity  hell  humane  punishment  

Marcus AureliusWhatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of thy being, and of that which is incident to it.

 - Marcus Aurelius

Tags:   causes  effects  eternity  fate  

Thomas PaineIt is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time.

 - Thomas Paine

Tags:   eternity  space  time  

Friedrich NietzscheWhat, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you:

'This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh ... must return to you -- all in the same succession and sequence -- even this spider and this moonlight between the trees and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned over again and again -- and you with it, speck of dust!'

Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god, and never have I heard anything more divine!' If this thought were to gain possession of you, it would change you as you are, or perhaps crush you. The question in each and every thing, "do you want this once more and innumerable times more?" would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight. Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?

 - Friedrich Nietzsche

Tags:   eternity  regret  self  

Thomas CarlysleUnder all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

 - Thomas Carlysle

Tags:   eternity  quiet  silence  speech  time