Tom Stoppard Quotes

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

The sum of all sums is eternity.

That is a long word: forever!

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

Forever is composed of nows.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

I've been thinking about forever

The scariest part of forever is that nothing is.

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!

If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.

Every moment is nothing without end.

A week is a long time in politics. A month is an eternity.

History hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

I am the father of the Centuries, the mysterious repository of fame; and the unknown Eternity was my mother; Infinity marks the borders of my realm; no sepulcher will ever hold me, for I am mightier than Death; my vision scans the past and the future, and through my hands the presence flows.

On the whole, infinity is a fairly palpable aspect of this business of publishing, if only because it extends a dead author's existence beyond the limits he envisioned, or provides a living author with a future he cannot measure. In other words, this business deals with the future which we all prefer to regard as unending.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before.

I know I am deathless…We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.

Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for a while. Maybe even forever. That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.