Top 76 Immemorial Quotes
#1. Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.
H.L. Mencken
#2. The closeness of the India-Afghanistan relationship is not a new phenomenon. It has existed since time immemorial. And as a close friend, ever since India's Independence, we have done and will continue to do whatever is required to be done to see Afghanistan grow and progress as a close friend.
Narendra Modi
#3. I always wanted to know what it is right. Maybe we know each other from time immemorial, if you know that in you is the eternal energy of goodness, which is most important for you.
Gregor Golob
#4. Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old.
Joseph Conrad
#5. 'Never change' is the thing that probably high school students have written in each other's yearbooks for time immemorial. They think that command is possible!
Jane Hamilton
#6. Since time immemorial wise people have been saying that all comparisons are odious. When we compare, we set up a winner-loser dynamic. If my crisis is greater than yours, then yours is belittled and insignificant. I say that's nonsense. Each crisis has its own power, its own unique reality.
Tavis Smiley
#7. From time immemorial we've been cleaning up after male messes. When a man does it for a woman, it's called being rescued. When a woman does it for a man, it's housework.
Kate Meader
#8. From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
Abdus Salam
#9. What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
Henry David Thoreau
#10. Dreams of flying have haunted the collective imagination since time immemorial.
Umberto Eco
#11. The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long as man continues to condemn the biological demand for natural sexual gratification.
Wilhelm Reich
#12. The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.
Eden Robinson
#13. To be wild as the waves;
enshrined
by the vastness -
our cosmic immemorial.
Unsettled as the forest.
An indomitable flicker
amidst worldviews,
of jaded crowns
and romantic ash.
Steven Storm
#14. And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.
Martin Amis
#15. That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
Euripides
#16. Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
Aldous Huxley
#17. The True One was there from time immemorial.
He is there today and ever there you will find.
He never died nor will he ever die ...
Look within, you will see Him there enshrined.
Guru Nanak
#18. I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the avowed intention of attaining to majority in the country and thus to dispossess the people whose country it had been since time immemorial.
Muhammad Asad
#19. What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.
E. E. Cummings
#20. The greatest thing ever in the history of the world and of all of human endeavor from time immemorial is stories.
Rainn Wilson
#21. Drug use is a primordial animal activity. Among humans , it is immemorial and nearly universal. VVhat then accounts for the 'war on drugs
Anonymous
#22. In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.
Michael Chabon
#23. Returning to writing fiction after years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's what I had wanted to be for my entire life, since I can remember, since my particular time immemorial. It's how I got my start as a writer.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#24. India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#26. It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.
Richard Le Gallienne
#27. Heaven and Hell. White and black. Good and evil. This was a face-off between light and dark, as stark and true as any war since time immemorial. The
Mark Cassell
#28. She lent herself to immemorial human attitudes which we recognize by instinct as universal and true ... she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things.
Willa Cather
#29. This world has been changing from time immemorial. But because it is "round" (subject to cycle of cause-effect), one cannot find an end to it.
Dada Bhagwan
#30. She breathes a soft sigh, and in the tried and true ways of time immemorial, she welcomes me home.
Magda Alexander
#31. All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.
Martin Filler
#32. Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.
Ayn Rand
#33. This morning the world by moonlight seemed to be an immemorial acquaintance I had always meant to befriend. If there was ever a chance, it had passed. Strange to say, I feel a little that way about myself.
Marilynne Robinson
#34. Since time immemorial any woman with half a brain has known that in the pursuit of romance she must hide it
Mavis Cheek
#35. Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.
Paul Gauguin
#36. The here, the now and the individual have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet and
from time immemorial
the woman.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#37. On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
Frederick Soddy
#38. Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#39. Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#40. The ordinary was the divine, where common sense met mystery, where logic kissed the cheek of the inexplicable, the immeasurable, immemorial spirit throbbing like veins beneath the hard gray asphalt of quotidian life.
Tony Hendra
#41. The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic power of the spoken word, and that alone. The broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.
William L. Shirer
#42. From time immemorial, soups and broths have been the worldwide medium for utilizing what we call the kitchen byproducts or as the French call them, the 'dessertes de la table' (leftovers), or 'les parties interieures de la bete', such as head, tail, lights, liver, knuckles and feet.
Louis Pullig De Gouy
#43. Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.
Hugh Hefner
#44. From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
Paracelsus
#45. When the tendencies (vruti) that were wandering around since time immemorial come within & enter into the Self's (Soul's) abode; it is known as freedom from all wanderings (nivruti).
Dada Bhagwan
#46. From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace ... War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated-ever.
Elie Wiesel
#47. The living being is in the state of forgetfulness of his relation with God due to his being overly attracted to material sense gratification from time immemorial.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#49. Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.
Joseph Campbell
#50. Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in case of being wounded. This was all the more necessary under these circumstances, as many of them were still covered with coal dust.
Richard Hough
#51. Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.
Lewis Mumford
#52. Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings.
Hugh Miller
#53. The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial. Especially common is ingratitude to Israel - the People that has achieved so much of eternal worth, but has rarely succeeded in winning gratitude.
Joseph Hertz
#54. In a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.
Vladimir Nabokov
#55. But even in gloom, one truth is fundamental, from time immemorial, love springs eternal.
Balaji Sadasivan
#56. The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?
Marshall Herskovitz
#57. You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.
John Le Carre
#58. Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans.
H.L. Mencken
#59. The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.
Karl Marx
#60. The key to success in any area of life is to first know and master the area of focus. Cures to disease have been found, since time immemorial, by studying how the body functions as well as how the disease affects the sick. Seek depth in knowledge and research.
Archibald Marwizi
#61. Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
Wangari Maathai
#62. From time immemorial, symbolism and poetry have been inseparable. Like a pirate and his rum.
Haruki Murakami
#63. Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
William James
#64. Giants have an immemorial right to stupidity and insolent abuse.
George Eliot
#66. Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times ...
George Ellery Hale
#67. The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around.
Allen Ginsberg
#68. God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; he will set them above their betters.
H.L. Mencken
#69. We all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own ... [This] may seem wild, and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not unscientific.
Lord Kelvin
#70. the cross, from time immemorial, was universally symbolic of the intersection between earth and heaven, matter and spirit, the one and the many, human and divine.
Kenneth Atchity
#71. Wilier races had interbred with human race during immemorial.
Therefore no need to look for them on anywhere but in ourselves.
Toba Beta
#72. It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year ...
Edgar Allan Poe
#73. From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.
Ben Klassen
#74. The opposition between the men who have and the men who are is immemorial.
William James
#75. As a journalist, you know you are doing your job properly when you manage to upset rich, powerful and entitled people who are used to getting their own way,and you know you've really got under their skin when they pursue censorship, the avenue of last resort since time immemorial.
Guy Adams
#76. Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not even for the joys of the mind - it is a path for realization and salvation.
Ali Akbar Khan
