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Constantly Quotes (page 29)

Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up. Haruki Murakami
H. L. Mencken quote: "I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are..."
I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey. H. L. Mencken
For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it? A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not,... Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying. Annie Dillard
What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster. John Steinbeck
Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked. David Mamet
Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion in continual pretense and overreaching and anticipating other. Virtue has come to consist of doing something in less time that someone else. Hours in which honesty is permitted have become rare, and when they arrive one is tired and does not only want to "let oneself go" but actually wishes to stretch out as long and wide and ungainly as one happens to be... Soon we may well reach the... Friedrich Nietzsche
Ray Bradbury quote: "Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs..."
Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending. Ray Bradbury
Jules Verne quote: "[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each..."
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one. Jules Verne
Anthony de Mello quote: "The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently..."
The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change. Anthony de Mello
Her life was beginning to make sense again, although she couldn’t say she was enjoying it. But her mind was clear, and her heart was not constantly as heavy. Only when she thought about him. But she knew that in time, she’d survive it. She had done it before and would again. Eventually the heart repairs. Danielle Steel
I lead a bitter life, devoid of all external joy and in which I have nothing to keep me going but a sort of permanent rage, which weeps at times from impotence, but which is constant. Gustave Flaubert
C. S. Lewis quote: "No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever..."
No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened. C. S. Lewis
In every room there is a mirror before which he stands attentively and chews his rage, and from the constant chewing, from the grumbling and mumbling and the muttering and cursing his jaws have gotten unhinged and they sag badly and, when he rubs his beard, pieces of his jaw crumble away and he's so disgusted with himself that he stamps on his own jaw, grinds it to bits with his big heels. Henry Miller
it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Charles Dickens

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