Eternally Quotes
305 Eternally quotes by 252 unique authors
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I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis…
— Annie Dillard
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I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.
— Mary McCarthy
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Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne,…
— Anais Nin
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Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or…
— Rick Riordan
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Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you 'today' never comes to an end: and yet our 'today' does come to an end…
— Saint Augustine
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It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the…
— John Steinbeck
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What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
— Cynthia Ozick
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There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times,…
— Carl Jung
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Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties…
— Khalil Gibran
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I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a…
— Denis Johnson
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Love me, beloved; Hades and Death Shall vanish away like a frosty breath; These hands, that now are at home in thine, Shall clasp thee…
— George MacDonald
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It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than…
— Leo Tolstoy
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...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't have the slightest…
— Katherine Paterson
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Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety…
— Pearl S. Buck
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If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a…
— William James
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Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously. Only…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial.…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly…
— Peter S. Beagle
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The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination:…
— Anais Nin
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We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Who Wrote These Eternally Quotes
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