Emil Cioran Quotes

If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events, from the world, from its pain. Timeless, eternal.

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.

There is a kind of immortality in every garden.

A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

Eternity - waste of time.

One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

If I would have been in a different world Like I frequently am when I see you Oh I might have missed All the ways you try to give If only you knew what you do to me Sometimes I think about eternity If it would have been another time I wonder what you would of had in mind

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

Always is no Time at all.

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

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.

What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows," she says.

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.

Forever only takes its toll on some

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.

The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity