Alice Hoffman Quotes

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

Eternity ceased gradually to serve as the measure and focus of human actions.

My bits of time play with eternity.

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

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

We're here for such a short period of time.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

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

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

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.

Nothing lives long Only the earth and mountains

When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

Man lives in time but his life transcends time.