Eternal Quotes - Page 40

• A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Hope, Giving, Age

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• We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Change, Death, Health

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Essence of the Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, p.16, Harmony

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• Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Eternal Life, Frightening

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• The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

  Norman Cousins

  Missing You, Heartbroken, Lonely

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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• Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

  William Cowper

  Truth, Fighting, Shadow

  William Cowper (1835). “The Poems of William Cowper ...”, p.65

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• The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

  Aleister Crowley

  Life, Mistake, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

  John Cusack

  Falling In Love, Men, People

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• Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Science, Law

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.51, eKitap Projesi

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• The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Writing, Bird, World

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

  Meister Eckhart

  Father, Lying, Bears

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• One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.117, Open Road Media

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• Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, Patriotic

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• Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

  George Eliot

  Family, Children, Littles

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola”, p.14, George Eliot

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• If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Subjects, Ifs

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• The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

  E. M. Forster

  People, Society, Literature

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Travel, Names, Rome

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Spring, Clothes, Brilliant

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• Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Struggle, Sun

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• Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Beauty, Fashion, Passion

  "Daily Bread for Your Mind and Soul: A Handbook of Transcultural Proverb and Sayings". Book by Fayek S. Hourani, p. 169, 2012.

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• The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

  Billy Graham

  Important

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• I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Life And Death, Childhood

  "Hugh Hefner dead: The Playboy founder in his own words". www.abc.net.au. September 28, 2017.

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• The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

  Hermann Hesse

  Sympathy, Death, Sweet

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography”, p.218, Macmillan

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• I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Actors, Realist, Lows

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• Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Praying, Torture

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• Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Struggle, Fighting

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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