A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
永恒
Eternity
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
一张照片可以是一个瞬间的生活捕捉到永远不会停止回头看你。
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。
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
意见会改变，举止会改变，信仰会起起落落，但是道德律法是写在永恒的桌子上的。
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
我从万古就存在，看哪，我在这里。我将存在到时间的尽头，因为我的存在没有尽头。
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
我宁愿呼吸她的秀发，亲吻她的双唇，抚摸她的手，也不愿没有永恒。
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
美是一种珍贵的痕迹，永恒使它呈现在我们面前，又从我们身边带走。是永恒的象征，也是死亡的象征。
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.
在经历了一段漫长的寻找过程之后，突然间看到并发现的景象让人充满了狂喜和悲伤的矛盾。我生来就是为了看。
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。
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
时间对于那些等待的人来说太慢，对于那些恐惧的人来说太快，对于那些悲伤的人来说太长，对于那些快乐的人来说太短，但是对于那些爱的人来说，时间就是永恒。
A circular eternity may seem atrocious to the spectator, but it is satisfactory to individuals inside. Free from bad news and disease, they always live as if it were the first time, and do not remember previous times.
圆形的永恒对旁观者来说似乎是残酷的，但对内在的个体来说却是令人满意的。没有坏消息和疾病，他们总是像第一次一样生活，不记得以前的时间。
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.
由此可见，人在死后是属灵的，不再是属血气的，属血气的人与属血气的人是分开的，仍是属血气的人，与属血气的人是一样的。因为人死后，状态是不能改变的。
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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。
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。
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。
Architecture aims at Eternity.
建筑的目标是永恒。
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。
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。