Immortal Quote by Jan Struther Download Open image “To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal” — Jan Struther ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Immortal Leisure One day
You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal. - Kate Sheffield — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“For a life oriented to leisure is in the end a life oriented to death – the greatest leisure of all.” — Ann Lamott Copy Share Image
“A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“المضحك أن ملايين ممن يتمنون الخلود لا يجدون ما يفعلونه في أوقات فراغهم !! (سوزان أرتز) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves in their weekend.” — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“For all the glamour of living forever … immortality is really just a long curse. Finite life is precious; it’s fleeting and significant. But… — Chelsea Fine Copy Share Image
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“It was more like a form of claustrophobia -- a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“...[Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.” — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
In childhood the daylight always fails too soon -- except when there are going to be fireworks; — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond our control.… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland. Far from… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create - the energy that we… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust. — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
“Because, well, you're not immortal anymore. At least as far as we know; just because you can bleed doesn't mean you'll grow old and… — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal. — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“What is the most amazing thing about the world? 'Every day creatures die, yet the rest live as if immortal.” — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image