„Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.“

— Stephen Hawking

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„Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.“
— Joseph Campbell
„Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.“
— Cassandra Clare
„The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost…Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.“
— Thomas Aquinas
„It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.“
— Louisa May Alcott
„At the same time, my anxiety had turned into an anxiety quite lacking in anxiousness. And any anxiety that is not especially anxious is, in the end, an anxiety hardly worth mentioning.“
— Haruki Murakami
„This was the first step made in the Christian religion towards the veneration of the Martyrs: and tho it did not yet amount to an unlawful worship; yet it disposed the Christians towards such a further veneration of the dead, as in a short time ended in the invocation of Saints.“
— Isaac Newton
„Retreat is a difficult matter, especially for revolutionaries who are accustomed to advance; especially when they have been accustomed to advance with enormous success for several years; especially if they are surrounded by revolutionaries in other countries who are longing for the time when they can launch an offensive.“
— Vladimir Lenin
„He walked out of nowhere toward nowhere, a man from another time who, it seemed, had reached a point of pointless ending.“
— Stephen King