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1. “A day is a miniature eternity.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time, Perspective, Eternity, Appreciation, Moments

2. “A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humanity, Divinity, Innocence, Life, Eternity

3. “A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”

John F. Kennedy

Enduring ideas, Legacy, Life beyond death, Ideals, Inspiration, Eternity

4. “A mathematical equation stands forever.”

Albert Einstein

Mathematics, Eternity, Knowledge, Logic, Science

5. “A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Time, Eternity, Stars, Philosophy, Mortality, Concept

6. “Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

Time, Eternity, Moments, Experience, Reflection, Change

7. “All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”

C.S. Lewis

Adventure, Life, Story, Hope, Eternity

8. “And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!”

Charles Dickens

Loss, Eternity, Emptiness, Grief, Life

9. “And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.”

William Butler Yeats

God’s Horn, Time In Flight, Loneliness Of Divinity, Eternity, Transience, Reflection

10. “And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.”

J. R. R. Tolkien

Time, Fate, Eternity, Life, Perspective

11. “And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Awakening, Consciousness, Eternity, Philosophy, Self-Realization

12. “And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.”

Carl Jung

Life After Death, Eternity, Spiritual Insight, Human Connection, Universal Meaning, Mystical Understanding

13. “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”

Henry David Thoreau

Time, Eternity, Life, Consequences, Reflection

14. “As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.”

John Keats

Golden Silence, Eternal Speech, Timeless Truth, Silence, Speech, Eternity

15. “Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

Timeless Presence, Eternal Awareness, Personal Identity, Eternity, Freedom, Reflection

16. “Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”

Khalil Gibran

Beauty, Eternity, Self-Reflection, Art, Nature, Essence

17. “Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.”

Oscar Wilde

Beauty, Time, Eternity, Philosophy, Reflection

18. “Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”

Albert Camus

Beauty And Eternity, Emotional Reflection, Human Experience, Beauty, Eternity, Reflection

19. “BEQUEST. You left me, sweet, two legacies, – A legacy of love A Heavenly Father would content, Had He the offer of; You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.”

Emily Dickinson

Legacy, Love, Pain, Eternity, Boundaries, Memory

20. “Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.”

John Milton

Eternity, Infinity, Mystery, Cosmic Scale, Human Limitation

21. “Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Eternal Mystery, Heaven Reward, Death, Grave, Heaven, Eternity

22. “But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.”

Edgar Allan Poe

Love, Connection, Eternity, Poetic Expression, Emotional Depth, Existential Bond

23. “Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Change, Eternity, Existence, Impermanence, Philosophical Thought

24. “Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.”

Carl Jung

Continuous Creation, Eternal Presence, Artistic Process, Innovation, Eternity, Art

25. “Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.”

Simone Weil

Death, Eternity, Instantaneous, State, Temporal Concepts, Existential Reflection

26. “Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”

Helen Keller

Life Beyond, Death Passage, Inner Peace, Eternity, Vision, Peace

27. “Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.”

Eckhart Tolle

Death, Life, Birth, Opposites, Eternity

28. “Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love. Death stands before eternity and says YES.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

Death, Life Philosophy, Love, Eternity, Reflection, Personal Growth

29. “Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.”

John Milton

Death, Eternity, Afterlife, Transition, Metaphor

30. “Death which is the mother of the universe! – Now wear your nakedness forever, white flowers in your hair, your marriage sealed behind the sky – no revolution might destroy that maidenhood.”

Allen Ginsberg

Mortality, Nature, Eternity, Poetic Imagery, Cosmic Perspective, Philosophical Reflection

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