John Donne Quotes

I've been thinking about forever

The sum of all sums is eternity.

The present is the only thing that has no end.

That is a long word: forever!

Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

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

Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things.

Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

Never is an awfully long time.

Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.

When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.

Always is no Time at all.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity

What is forever? God, I don't know. Hope, I guess. That's a difficult question.

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 store—No 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.

a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.