Eternal Quotes - page 2

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. View quote
Wendell Phillips
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble. View quote
Richard Russo
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity. View quote
Antonio Porchia
To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night ~ brothers who see now they are truly brothers. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation. View quote
Robert Bridges
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. (Albert Einstein)
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. View quote
Martin Luther
Love is eternal for as long as it lasts. View quote
Vinícius de Moraes
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. View quote
Egon Schiele
The longest day must have its close -- the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. View quote
James Thurber
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever. View quote
Yitzhak Shamir
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. View quote
E. M. Forster
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. (John le Carré)
As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life. View quote
P. D. James
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. View quote
Edith Wharton
I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development. View quote
Alice Roosevelt Longworth