Aging Quote by Anais Nin

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

— Agona Apell

Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can…

— Henry David Thoreau

When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during…

— Alan Moore

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

— William H. Gass

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

— William Morley Punshon

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

— William Shakespeare

I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do…

— Will Smith

This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better…

— Paulo Coelho

Gold adulterates one thing only,--the human heart.

— Margaret of Valois

I'm living proof that whatever happens to you in life, you can turn base metal into gold.

— Lady Colin Campbell

“Opinions differ on the details, but most serious students today recognize that alchemy was, and is, a spiritual pursuit, and that whether or not…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the…

— Patrick Rothfuss