Quotes about Perpetual
Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.
- Revelation 21:25
Dies, all dies!The grass it dies, but in vernal rainUp it springs and it lives again;Over and over, again and againIt lives, it dies and it lives again.
- Herman Melville
Here we see how the plantation, which does not create employment for its inhabitants, nevertheless does provide stable employment to a whole class of academics, social workers and bureaucrats. The employment is stable because the plantation is permanent; there are no plans for it to ever be dismantled. The "war against poverty" is a perpetual fight in which poverty always wins because the game is rigged and the combatants are not fighting to win, only to hold the line.
- Dinesh D'Souza
Story is atomic. It is perpetual energy and can power a city. Story is the one thing that can hold a human being's attention for hours.
- Donald Miller
Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!
- John Milton
Fight ! Fight! I repeated. It is the effort and the struggle, it is the perpetual warfare, it is the shattering and piecing together. This is the daily battle, defeat or victory, the absorbing pursuit.
- Virginia Woolf
There was no pause, no pity, no peace, no interval of relenting rest, no measurement of time. Though days and nights circled as regularly as when time was young, and the evening and morning were the first day, other count of time there was none.
- Charles Dickens
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning... Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me... To be awake is to be alive.
- Henry David Thoreau
Ever is a long time.
- Cormac McCarthy
Allons! to that which is endless as it was beginningless.
- Walt Whitman
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd.
- Walt Whitman
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
- Edmund Burke