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Perpetual Quotes

It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.

It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.

Julius Caesar
Suffering, Apprehension, Perpetual

Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.

Georges Danton
Perpetual, Boldness

Perpetual peace is a futile dream.

George S. Patton
Dream, Military, Perpetual

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

William Shakespeare
Success, Rust, Perpetual
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [247]

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

Theodore Roethke
Astonishment, Perpetual
Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.175, Copper Canyon Press

The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.

Hafez
Lips, Pleasure, Perpetual

Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.

Gary Zukav
Flight, Perfectionism, Perpetual
FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Dec 29, 2014

... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

Virginia Woolf
Discovery, Miracle, Perpetual
Virginia Woolf (2015). “The Years”, p.329, Booklassic

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

Carol Gilligan
Crisis, Perpetual

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

Edith Wharton
Broken, Together, Perpetual
Edith Wharton (2016). “The Reef: American Literature”, p.206, VM eBooks

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

Thomas Carlyle
Despair, Perpetual, Idleness

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

Charles Spurgeon
Hypocrisy, Perpetual, Godliness
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1856). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”, p.339

We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.

Georges Braque
Perpetual, Repose

Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

Camille Paglia
Religious, Hallmark, Perpetual

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

Rabindranath Tagore
Surprise, Perpetual
Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.6, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

Ludwig Borne
Change, Lasting, Perpetual
"Denkrede auf Jean Paul Friedr. Richter". Book by Ludwig Borne, 1826.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

Logan Pearsall Smith
Mind, Ethics, Perpetual
Afterthoughts ch. 1 (1931)

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

William Temple
Science, Accounts, Perpetual
Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association Vol. XVII, 'Poetry and Science'

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.

Thomas Hobbes
Mind, Tranquility, Perpetual
Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.36, Hackett Publishing

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

Michel de Montaigne
World, Saws, Perpetual
Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.

Max Lucado
Occasional, Perpetual
Max Lucado (2011). “In the Grip of Grace -: Your Father Always Caught You. He Still Does.”, p.196, Thomas Nelson Inc

Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.

Zygmunt Bauman
Anxiety, Chaos, Perpetual
Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

When you are in touch with the Inner Being then irrespective of the outer state, you remain in a perpetual state of happiness!

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
States, Perpetual

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

Simone Weil
Creation, Acts Of Love, Perpetual
Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.32, Psychology Press

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

Rick Springfield
Perpetual, Bits

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