Perpetually Quotes
199 quotes by 162 authors
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Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and at…
— Pittacus Lore
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The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it or not, we…
— Elif Safak
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On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines…
— Elizabeth von Arnim
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The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us…
— Elif Safak
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If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is…
— Daniel Gilbert
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Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.
— David Levithan
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Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
— Alan Bennett
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The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we…
— Cheryl Strayed
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People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness,…
— James A. Baldwin
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Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the…
— Aldous Huxley
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We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do.…
— Dallas Willard
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I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived until there are…
— Sylvia Plath
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Tessa looked quickly to Will, but he only crossed the room as he always did to lean against the fireplace mantel. Cecily had never been…
— Cassandra Clare
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I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in…
— Ingmar Bergman
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too…
— Jhonen Vasquez
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There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and…
— Eric Hoffer
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