Alchemy Quotes

106 Alchemy quotes by 93 unique authors

Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just... Jean: A little brat who swears a lot Maes: An arrogant pipsqueak Roy: Useless. Just useless Alphonse: Sorry big… — Hiromu Arakawa
Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had… — Marilynne Robinson
The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have… — Edith Wharton
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an… — Duane Michals
Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the… — Eduardo Galeano
The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship. — Elizabeth Gilbert
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall… — Saul Williams
Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some… — William Gibson
I've learned a thing or two from Barrons: Power is sexy. It shapes my spine, infuses my beckoning hand. I have not been devastated by… — Karen Marie Moning
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief… — Upton Sinclair
These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If… — Deborah Harkness
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy.… — Karen Armstrong
We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft, and… — Beryl Markham
The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss. — Deepak Chopra
Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without… — R A Salvatore
Nicholas: One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries… — Michael Scott
Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology. — Christopher Hitchens
There was no "me" in Alchemy. Well, phonetically there was, but that wasn't the point. — Richelle Mead
Cineama, heir of alchemy, The last erotic science — Jim Morrison
Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness. — Karen Armstrong
Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate. — Laini Taylor
We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as… — Stefan Zweig
Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust. — Rajneesh
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness. — Pearl S. Buck
Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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