Sometimes I've been afraid that she would get so far ahead of me in the ways of eternity that I'd never catch up.
But as their lives become intertwined, she finds herself captivated by the very person she swore to loathe for all eternity.
The spirit was braced by the thought that here, to the furthest eternity of civilisation more and more intricate, simple and strong souls would always find solace and repose.
The night-sky lit her reign: like its slow-wheeling progress, advanced her victory—that onward movement which has been, and is, and will be from eternity to eternity.
I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature despair.
Jean Baptiste, that dream remained scarce fifteen minutes—a brief space, but sufficing to wring my whole frame with unknown anguish; to confer a nameless experience that had the hue, the mien, the terror, the very tone of a visitation from eternity.
"A spell of eternity is woven over it, surely," murmured Uncle Blair.
The June night was short; but it seemed an eternity to those who waited and watched.
But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.
I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter—the Eternity they have entered—where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.
"And here shall I sleep the sleep of eternity, if—" replied the captain.
To convince Carp of his mistake, so that he would have to eat his own words with a good deal of indigestion, would be an agreeable accident of triumphant authorship, which the prospect of living to future ages on earth and to all eternity in heaven could not exclude from contemplation.
We could not come before; the old devil of a coachmaker was such an eternity finding out a thing fit to be got into, and now it is ten thousand to one but they break down before we are out of the street.
The boys lay there counting the dragging moments till it seemed to them that time must be done and eternity growing gray; and then they were grateful to note that at last the sun was setting.
At last he was satisfied that time had ceased and eternity begun; he began to doze, in spite of himself; the clock chimed eleven, but he did not hear it.
It seemed like an eternity.
K Narayan once wrote that "In a country like ours, the preoccupation is with eternity, and little measures of time are hardly ever noticed".
To a place so beautiful That we can stay for eternity.
I had no strength left, so we prayed and waited what seemed an eternity.
I had no strength left, so we prayed and waited what seemed an eternity.
