“He who has no vision has no hold on time”
Thomas Carlyle
1795 – 1881
“There is, I know not how, in the minds of men, A certain presage as it were of a future existence, and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls”
Cicero
106 BC – 43 BC
“Eternity! How know we but we stand on the precipitous and crumbling verge of time e’en now. Eternity below?”
Abraham Coles
1813 – 1891
“It is an eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly in the lost laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; Now is the immortal life.”
Richard Jefferies
1848 – 1887
“All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 – 1882
“Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.”
John Donne
1572 – 1631
“The time will come when every change shall cease, this quick revolving wheel shall rest peace: No summer then shall glow, nor winter freeze; Nothing Shall be to come, and nothing Past! But an eternal now Shall ever last.”
Petrarch
1304 – 1374
“How vast is eternity! It will swallow up all the human race; It will collect all the intelligent universe; It will open up scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.”
Nathanael Emmons
1745 – 1840