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Quotes About Perpetual

Cominci a scappare e sarai in fuga per sempre»
~ Joanne Harris
My love for you is like a circle, it has no end.
~ Unknown
The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
~ Unknown
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
~ Richard Powers
Ah, contradiction! The perpetual body odor of humanity! No one was spared, not even the Americans or the Vietnamese, who bathed daily, or the French, who bathed less than daily.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.
~ Jean Giraudoux
He was supposed to get through dinner not thinking about the only things he could think about. He was supposed to do this forever.
~ Philip Roth
Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear. Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.
~ Philip Roth
You've learned the lesson,' Kellhus had said on one of those rare mornings when he shared her breakfast. 'What lesson might that be?' 'That the lessons never end.' He laughed, gingerly sipped his steaming tea. 'That ignorance is infinite.
~ R. Scott Bakker
The world turns and the world changes, but one thing does not change . . . The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.
~ Dean Koontz
in the perpetual struggle of good and evil, the latter must be resisted without fail.
~ Dean Koontz
Her sweet appearance and air of perpetual gratitude for the very fact of life seemed to be the truth of her.
~ Dean Koontz
time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.
~ Italo Calvino
A model is by definition that in which nothing has to be changed, that which works perfectly; whereas reality, as we see clearly, does not work and constantly falls to pieces; so we must force it, more or less roughly, to assume the form of the model.
~ Italo Calvino
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say
~ Italo Calvino
The electrical universe meant that 'eternal life and perpetual motion are almost, or altogether, synonymous' – that is to say, impossible.30 Time therefore, for revolution on earth since there was no hope of heaven.
~ Unknown
American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
~ Camille Paglia
When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. But if we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck in place, in perpetual regret.
~ Lori Gottlieb
The urge toward action, i.e., improvement of the conditions of life, is inborn in man. Man himself changes from moment to moment and his valuations, volitions, and acts change with him. In the realm of action there is nothing perpetual but change.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Yes, another April; in a way, in this story, it is always April.
~ John Banville
ad infinitum, and
~ John Bunyan
In the end we just realize there's no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That's what's wonderful about the universe there's no escape from living. Death doesn't even end it.
~ Frederick Lenz
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.
~ Freya Stark
There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms of life arise.
~ Charles Mackay