Best eternity & strange Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use it to enrich the canvas and to probe more deeply into the object. Colour also decided, to a certain extent, my spiritual outlook, but it is subordinated to life, and above all, to the treatment of form. Too much emphasis on colour at the expense of form and space would make a double manifestation of itself on the canvas, and this would verge on craft work.”

“Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior.”

“Eternity.Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must be, yet which contradict'st All sense, all reasoning,thou, who never wast Less than thyself, and who still art thyself Entire, though the deep draught which Time has taken Equals thy present storeNo line can reach To thy unfathomed depths. The reasoning sage Who can dissect a sunbeam, count the stars, And measure distant worlds, is here a child, And, humbled, drops his calculating pen.”

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“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

“If we can keep our minds calm on the subject of the "Eternity of God," if reason does not totter on her seat at the contemplation of underived existence, it will be strange if any other mystery relating to God should disturb us. He who can bring his reason to bow reverently at the idea of a Being who had no beginning, is well prepared to receive any communication of His will.”

Ifs Should Mind Wells Doe Ideas Reason God Existence Mystery Subjects Strange Communication Eternity Prepared Calm Contemplation Seats Bows

Author:Nehemiah Adams

“Yea, I have looked, and seen November there; The changeless seal of change it seemed to be, Fair death of things that, living once, were fair; Bright sign of loneliness too great for me, Strange image of the dread eternity, In whose void patience how can these have part, These outstretched feverish hands, this restless heart?”

Heart Hands Loneliness Strange Fairs Eternity Void Dread Restless November Seals Restless Heart Living Once

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?”

Knows Needs Moments Action Speak Accepting Wonderful Strange Shapes Universal Eternity Flesh Clock Warmth Nests Hold Fast

Book:Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

“Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.”

Said Sometimes Time Space Strange Eternity Absence Mathematical Touched Extensions Abandonment Width

Author:Graham Greene

“The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.”

Ideas Self Body Certain Water Strange Eternity Instruments Flesh Surrender Love Life Intoxication

Book:Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah

“The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life - how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects - not the reason, the purpose.”

“But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.”

“But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over the edge of the world. For love is always more than a little strange here...It is in the world, but is not altogether of it. It is of eternity. It takes us there when it most holds us here.”

World Feels Littles Lasts Force Sin Love Is Virtue Strange Eternity Edges Crowds Sooner Or Later Over The Edge Alone In Love Edge Of The World

Author:Wendell Berry

“it’s true this world our breathing laboured inspires nothing more than obvious disgust a desire to flee without our share and no longer read the headlines we long to return to our ancestral home where our forebears once lived under an angel’s wing we long to find that strange morality which sanctified life to the end we crave something like loyalty like the embrace of mild addictions something that transcends yet contains life we cannot live far from eternity”

World Long Ends Home Desire Share This World Inspire Strange Return Morality Angel Eternity Embrace Wings Addiction Obvious Loyalty Breathing Disgusting Crave Headlines

Author:Michel Houellebecq

“You are the single most amazing person, faery, woman in this world or the other. Because of you, I am a part of this strange new world, have a second mother, and . . . eternity. I have almost everything I could want.”

World Want Persons Mother This World Strange Eternity New World Most Amazing Because Of You Amazing Person

Author:Melissa Marr

“Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.”

Doe Different Faces Time Century Strange Eternity Tyrants Strange Things Whimsical Different Faces

Book:Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.”

Soul Song Music Sea Strange Eternal Music Is Singing Bird Eternity Shore Shells

Author:J. G. Holland

“After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.”

Born Grief Seeing Strange Findings Eternity Filled Seeking Paradox Ecstasy Threshold Finding The One

Author:Joy Page

“Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.”

Long Moments Time Strange Eternity Breaths Advocating

Author:Cornell Woolrich

“Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.”

Ifs Heaven Strange Creatures Eternity Harps

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

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