Best eternity & instant Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.”

Life Inspirational Positive Eternity Instant

Source: Meditations

“One instant is eternity; / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees.”

Eternity Instant

Author:Wumen Huikai

“In that instant when I had seen... the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths of the hypercosmical past and the hypercosmical future also, yet coexistent in eternity, lay cosmos beyond cosmos.”

Eye Past Stars Strange Eternity Lays Depth Instant Cosmos Makers Splendor Vistas

Book:Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

“A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul!”

Source: CYRANO DE BERGERAC

“Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.”

World Eternity Instant Leisure Cigarette Cigar Cuban Cigars

Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.”

World Persons Soul Country Whole God Action Past Events Eternity Paint Circles Instant Contemplation Atoms Idealism

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One instant is eternity; eternity is the now.”

Men Eternity Instant

Author:Wumen Huikai

“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.”

Brother Photography Eternity Photographer Photograph Nostalgia Cease Instant Looking Back Captured

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?”

Speak Wish Despair Eternity Creator Contact Instant Messengers

Author:A.M. Jenkins

“It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”

Men Needs Years Littles Soul States Reason Mother Animal Childhood Century Pure Eternity Twenties Structure Maturity Instant Thirty Vegetables Womb Early Childhood

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.”

People Felt Eternity Died Dare Instant Cheeks Rations

Author:Eva Ibbotson

“It was Alec who brought their lips together. Seregil's first reaction was disbelief. But Alec was insistent, clumsy but determined. It lasted an instant, an eternity, that one awkward kiss, and it spoke silent volumes of bewildered honesty. The moment that followed was too fragile for words.”

Firsts Moments Together Honesty Kissing Eternity Silent Lips Determined Reactions Instant Spokes Fragile Awkward Volume Disbelief Clumsy Bewildered

Book:Stalking Darkness: The Nightrunner Series

Source: Stalking Darkness: The Nightrunner Series

“It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?”

“I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.”

Life Dies Wish Knowing Eternity Philosophical Lifetime Instant Fleeting Wish To Die

Author:Robert Breault

“Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.”

Love Giving Years Stills Enough Half Millions Arms Eternity Give Me Tiny Instant Hug Enough Time Hug You

Author:Jacques Prevert

“Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, / While each new instant, (new eternity) / Flowering with clean and individual circumstance, / Speaks me the whisper of [God's] consecrating Spirit. / Then will obedience bring forth new Incarnations / Shining to God with the features of [the Lord's] Christ.”

Spirit Individual Speak Grows Christ Lord Teach Grace Circumstances Spring Eternity Shining Clean Charity Obedience Features Instant Blades Incarnation Spears Flowering

Author:Thomas Merton

“Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.”

Art Philosophy History Art Is Eternity Instant Great Art Arrested

Book:The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments

Source: The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments

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