Perpetual Quotes
Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.
They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief
Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.
The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.
People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.
It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives
Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.
Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.
Be a perpetual beginner. Always be inspired. It is that attitude of inspiration and belief that creates energy.
Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.
You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual oblivion until we change the world.
Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.
An enlightened master is a perpetual source of the cosmic light because his mind is always merged with nirvana.
To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.
Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.
Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.
The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.
The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties.
How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.
Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.
If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.
In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.
To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.
She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.
The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.
Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.
It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.
Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.
Your partner cannot fault you for refusing to host a perpetual-motion party or for the fact that you must sleep and will eventually die.
