Aeons Quotes

#1. There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath. Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#2. Clothe yourself in your authority. You speak not only as yourself or for yourself. You will speak and act with the courage and endurance that has been yours through the long, beautiful aeons
of your life story ...

Joanna Macy

#3. That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.

H.P. Lovecraft

#4. In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli. Made a musical notation of their snores. Elgar is to be played by a bass tuba, Ayrs a bassoon.

David Mitchell

#5. If it makes you feel better, though, Basil is the first on my list if we're ever stranded in deep space and forced to eat one another. Aeons are most delicious.

Rachel Bach

#6. One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.

Tilopa

#7. Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing.

Nicholas Sparks

#8. was sitting in my detective office in R'lyeh. My partner Dagon sat at the desk across from me. We had been doing the detective thing for a couple of strange aeons now.

Dennis Liggio

#9. For aeons past, there were many gods who descended to be humans, yet there were not many humans who ascended back to their divinity.

Raphael Zernoff

#10. We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses

Aldo Leopold

#11. The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Aeons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!

Thomas Carlyle

#12. Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons.
More than we experienced has gone by.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#13. So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors aeons ago.

Olaf Stapledon

#14. For if humanity has a future on this planet of a hundred million years, it is unthinkable that it should spend those aeons in a ferment of national self-satisfaction and chauvinistic idiocies.

William Golding

#15. Blue stands for many things at the end of time: for the forgotten, blazing blue stars of aeons past; the antithesis of redshift, the color of uncut veins beneath your skin.
This story is written in blue ink, although you do not know that yet.

Yoon Ha Lee

#16. I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment ... only to vanish forever.

Alan Watts

#17. The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell.

Aleister Crowley

#18. The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy are not daunting to immortal beings. By the end of the third millennium, travel to other stars could be technically feasible. But would there be sufficient motive?

Martin Rees

#19. I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic ... (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic.

Herbert Croly

#20. Life is the great teacher.

James Joyce

#21. I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

J.K. Rowling

#22. Love is more than an unblinking deep gaze, or a romantic fairytale of two hearts...
Love is two people bound by loyalty and deep friendship, standing side-by-side on the same trail of life.

Krista Leontieff

#23. I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.

Rachael Price

#24. Consistency and acceleration are both key to sustaining success. One-day-wonder persons who slouch back to mediocrity will soon be forgotten.

Archibald Marwizi

#25. The Male Factor is the singularly best business book for women I've read in years. This well-researched yet thoroughly readable book is rich with rare insights into how men really see women in the workplace-and how with a few simple adjustments you can even the playing field.

Lois P Frankel