A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
永恒
Eternity
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
相信梦想,因为在梦想中隐藏着通往永恒的大门。
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
政治是暂时的,但方程式是永恒的。
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
生命的可怕之处在于它决定了永恒。
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
时间不过是世界在永恒背景上的影子。
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
因为死亡只不过是我们从时间转向永恒。
We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
我们没有来世去实现我们的梦想,只有我们在这里的时候。
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
我们生命中的每一个动作都触动着在永恒中颤动的心弦。
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
从我腐烂的身体里,花朵会生长,而我就在其中,那就是永恒。
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
对于一个迷恋永恒的人来说,未来,那一半的时间,又有什么关系呢?
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
一想到要把我的记忆带入永恒,我就崩溃了,于是我投靠了无神论。
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
现在,n.现在,现在,现在把失望的领域和希望的领域分开的那部分永恒。
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
这就是艺术家,生命的饥饿者,永恒的饕餮者,美丽的守财奴,荣耀的奴隶。
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No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.
没有人能进入永恒,因为他已经进入了永恒。
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
即使是一种思想,我们也会逃避永恒。
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
沉默如永恒之深,言语如时间之浅。
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
我注定要永远做一种强迫性的工作。没有既定的目标可以满足。成功只会孕育新的目标。吃下去的金苹果有种子。它是无止境的。
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity!
仿佛你可以消磨时间而不伤害永恒!
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
每一件伟大的艺术作品都有两面,一面朝向它自己的时代,一面朝向未来,朝向永恒。