Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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

Time stays, we go.

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

I have wondered about time all my life.

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

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserv'd virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace.

Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

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

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

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

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Time marks us while we are marking time.

Our time on Earth is so random.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

Time is long but life is short.

Time is death.

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

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.

Time is a face on the water.

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.