Alchemy Quotes · Page 2

“What alchemy there was in human beings.”

— Agatha Christie

“With every vial of success there is always a pinch of madness.”

— Gunther Bearklawth

“With or without our knowledge, we are all alchemists.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy.

— Sarah Dunant

I am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes.

— Neri Oxman

“While the alchemist of old sought to turn lead into gold, the modern alchemist has a more noble dream: to turn men…

— Agona Apell

“Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.”

— Anaïs Nin

“Perception is the illusion that gives all matter mass," The Flight of the Eagle A.K. Luthienne”

— A.K. Luthienne

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

— Shawn Ryan

There was no "me" in Alchemy. Well, phonetically there was, but that wasn't the point.

— Richelle Mead

See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?

— George Meredith

The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things.

— Joanne Harris

“Like the alchemist’s crucible, can the special context created by the coaching encounter bring heart, mind and spirit together to produce gold…

— Hetty Einzig

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if…

— Joseph Addison

“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He…

— Susan Rowland

“There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers…

— Susan Rowland

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and…

— Thomas Szasz

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate…

— Florence King

The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into…

— Patricia Hampl

“There is beauty all around us, and the light finds us when we realize, we are all part of that beauty and…

— Tom Althouse

The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is…

— Peter Ackroyd

“Alchemy is the name of this temple of images. Here a towering wall of video flashes glamorous vamps and alien androgynes over…

— Karen D. Best

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act…

— Sam Keen

“Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's…

— Hiromu Arakawa

If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been…

— Rajneesh

“Like Eschenbach's stone, the Chintamani Stone is, apparently, also green in color, since Roerich is on record as also stating that the…

— Laurence Galian

We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in…

— Alberto Manguel

“They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.”

— Isaac Newton

" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.

— David Morrell

Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.

— Glen Hirshberg

“Starlight encased in flesh. Fire burning in so much water. Poetry living in hard spaces. oh, how the body loves”

— Lady Grey

I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something.

— Anthony Warlow

It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.

— Anonymous

“Because it is a process of alchemy: it transforms a vast manifestation of spiritual energy, which is love, into a physical gesture”

— Paulo Coelho

“I discovered that words are alchemy, that words really can save us.”

— Sarah Combs

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.

— Mark Buchanan

At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

— Julia Cameron

There's an alchemy that happens in my eyes when you mix it up, when you have a seasoned actor on set and…

— Sean Baker

The alchemy of a fight card is a mysterious thing. Even the most meticulous matchmaking can sometimes misfire.

— Katie Kitamura

“Change happens for you the moment you want something more than you fear it.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal