Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

German Writer

Leo Buscaglia

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

American Author

Albert Camus

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

French Philosopher

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Roman Statesman

Thomas Carlyle

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Scottish Philosopher

Henry David Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

William Blake

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

English Poet

Khalil Gibran

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Lebanese Poet

Albert Einstein

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

German Physicist

Gordon B. Hinckley

American Clergyman

Used to express a feeling that time is moving very slowly or waiting has been too long.

Exaggerated Duration

Often used to overstate a situation for emotional effect, not to be taken literally.

Hyperbolic Speech

Relates to beliefs about life beyond death, especially in a religious or spiritual context.

Spiritual Existence

Mostly used around discussions of afterlife beliefs and religious doctrines.

Afterlife Context

In literary texts, it is used to enhance descriptions and convey intense emotions or timeless states.

Literary Emphasis

Metaphorically, it can represent an extreme or limitless concept in a poetic sense.

Metaphoric Use

 I could hear people laughing on the summit just above me. I wanted to be anywhere but on that slab. My mind was racing in every direction. I knew what I had to do, but I was too afraid to do it. I just had to stand up on my right foot. And so after what felt like an eternity, I accepted what I had to do and I stood up on the right foot,

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 will impact those of their adversaries tomorrow. Selfishness may win out in the short-term, but with the proper incentives, peaceful cooperation is not only possible, but demonstrably and mathematically ideal. As for the gingerbread men, their eternity may be pretty crumby, but so long as they go out on a limb,

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 Prometheus was to be chained to a cliff for eternity. Each day, he would be visited by a vulture who would tear out his liver and each night his liver would grow back to be attacked again in the morning. Although Prometheus remained in perpetual agony, he never expressed regret at his act of rebellion.

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 and printing of money, some of these things you've mentioned. Will those things get us out of this situation, since, as you feel, it's happened before? But how would you think about balancing these tools right now? Yeah, those are the tools since eternity, basically,

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 And so they proceeded to engage this gentleman in a very robust discussion of his decision-making skills. My father may have mentioned that he was going to spend eternity in a very fiery place if he didn't find my name on that checklist.

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 the king and queen of the dead, he began to sing. He sang of his love for Eurydice, and said she had been taken away too soon. The day would come when she, like all living creatures, dwelled in the land of the dead for all eternity,

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 And I think it makes the world look like this. You really want to get the decision right if it's for all eternity, right? You don't want to pick the wrong mutual fund or wrong salad dressing. So that's one effect.

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 But just as he approached the top, the rock would roll all the way back down, forcing him to start over …and over, and over, for all eternity.

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 on each other's nerves and so okay great I I think maybe it was maybe four or five hours into eternity and I would

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 five minutes feels like an eternity but as the gloves come off it's only just beginning

Eternity

Exaggerated Duration

Hyperbolic Speech

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