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“Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow?”

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the littlest things: the castaway shoes of children; broken stems of marsh grass battered and drowned by the sea; prom photographs of dead women she never knew; wedding rings in pawnshop windows; the tiny bodies of Cornish hens in a nest of rice.”

Source: Sula

“Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!”

Thinking Lying Space Brain Blood Havens Periods Eternity Relation Chaos Tiny Mathematical Comparison Atoms Insignificant Farce Lying Here

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.”

Lost Forever Mets Eternity Lips Tiny Endless Spinning Fractions

Book:Before I Fall

Source: Before I Fall

“Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.”

Men Hours Grief Eternity Tiny Bores

Book:The Casual Vacancy

Source: The Casual Vacancy

“The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.”

Humans Home Age Science Lost Understanding Ordinary Eternity Size Tiny Cosmos Immensity Pale Blue Dot

Book:Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the icecap shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole . . . when all the cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, the sole survivor of animal life on this our earth - a melancholy bug.”

“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

“I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence - as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.”

Wells Reason Existence Mystery Eternity Structure Curiosity Humble Tiny Satisfied Portions Marvelous Mystery Of Life

Author:Albert Einstein

“Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.”

Ifs Giving Littles Use Time Suffering Loses Minutes Abuse Accounts Eternity Management Refuse Tiny Seconds Time Management Sixty

Author:Christine Warren

“I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. And as long as I had a part in the music of the spheres, even if it was only a single grace note, I was not worthless. Nor was I alone.”

Ifs Long Purpose Grace Eternity Infinite Notes I Realized Tiny Cosmos Spheres Worthless Specks Timelines

Book:Ultraviolet

Source: Ultraviolet