T. S. Eliot Quotes

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Forever is composed of nows.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is 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.

For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.

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.

Very early in my life it was too late.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?

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

Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose . . . . Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.

Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.

There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.