Elixir Quotes - Page 2

• Passion makes the old medicine new:
  Passion lops off the bough of weariness.
  Passion is the elixir that renews:
  how can there be weariness
  when passion is present?
  Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue:
  seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

  Rumi

  Love, Passion, Medicine

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.91, Lulu.com

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• What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Knowing, Needs, Intimacy

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Play, Piano, Nurse

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• An almost seismic sense of expectation emanates from a college campus. That is the true elixir of youth: the grand, the glorious, the magnificent hopes and dreams because all things - all things - are yet possible.

  Carolyn Hart

  Education, Dream, College

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• For the chemists, who wanted to manufacture new medicines and elixirs and transform base substances into noble ones, the notion that there was no metaphysical barrier to doing so - it was just a matter of getting the particles into new arrangements - was encouraging. That was the Baconian programme.

  Catherine Wilson

  Medicine, Noble, Substance

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Music is the elixir of life. It can mimic the heartbeats of our bodies and heal like a magic wand... The resonance it creates in our bodies cannot be replicated by any medicine.

  Walter Mikac

  Art, Medicine, Magic

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• I want to be a man who mixes strengths and compassion. That's my magic elixir, so to speak.

  Terry Crews

  Men, Compassion, Magic

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• Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Medicine

  Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.18

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• The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.

  J. G. Holland

  Love, Life, Real

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 393), 1895.

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• Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Max, Classic, Comic

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• Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us natural highs, the real fountain of youth we've been searching for. It enables us to drink from elixirs locked within our cells, just waiting for us to discover them.

  Doc Childre

  Real, Technology, Self

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• One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of. A tear may be the poetical resume of so many simultaneous impressions, the quintessence of so many opposing thoughts! It is like a drop of one of those precious elixirs of the East which contain the life of twenty plants fused into a single aroma.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Giving, Tears, May

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• The Land of Israel will be small, but the people of Israel will make it great. Not
  in opulence, but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their
  pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the
  faithful and skillful building of the good society.

  Abba Hillel Silver

  Pride, Destiny, Israel

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• [My work] is using light as a material to influence or affect the medium of perception. I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.

  James Turrell

  Mean, Light, Magic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When Republicans are down, in disarray, feeling blue, they turn to a tried-and-true elixir, sort of a Doctor Feelgood medicine for them. It's called tax cuts.

  Paul Gigot

  Cutting, Doctors, Blue

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• Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have just entered is to strive diligently to promote the happiness of others, to think of them first, yourself second. Happiness is the greatest tonic, the greatest elixir, of all. Worry is among the worst poisons. One sensible New Year resolution: I will do my utmost to have consideration for others, to exercise usefulness, to radiate happiness, to conquer worrying over things I cannot possibly remedy.

  B. C. Forbes

  Happiness, New Year, Exercise

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• I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life.

  Jack Nicholson

  Listening, Mind, Dying

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The body
  
  whips the soul. In its great desire
  it demands the elixir
  
  In the roar of spring,
  transmutations.

  Charles Olson

  Spring, Soul, Desire

  Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.216, New Directions Publishing

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• I've never understood the need people have to dictate morality to other people. I really don't know what it is. I don't know if it's fear or the belief that they know the only right way. Or maybe they see a lot of social ills and social decline, and they really think they have the elixir for it.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone
  is yours if you surrender
  sterile logic, trivial reason.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Faith, Magic, Stones

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.533, New Directions Publishing

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• When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.

  Austin Grossman

  Lying, Trying, World

  Austin Grossman (2007). “Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel”, p.261, Vintage

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• If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a certain person about it, what a relief it is to put it all down in a letter! Still greater is one's joy when a reply arrives. At that moment a letter really seems like an elixir of life.

  Sei Shonagon

  Dark, Worry, Joy

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• Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well - too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. A cordial word from his lips, or a gentle look from his eyes, would do me good, for all the span of life that remained to me; it would be comfort in the last strait of loneliness; I would take it - I would taste the elixir, and pride should not spill the cup.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Distance, Loneliness, Farewell

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.464, Xist Publishing

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• The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is well possible in a certain sense to prolong our lives backwards by acquiring the experiences of those who existed before us and by learning to know their views as well as if we were their contemporaries. The means for doing this is also an elixir of life.

  Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp

  Life, Mean, Science

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• Knowledge enormous makes a God of me.
  Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions,
  Majesties, sovran voices, agonies,
  Creations and destroyings, all at once
  Pour into the wide hollows of my brain,
  And deify me, as if some blithe wine
  Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk,
  And so become immortal.

  John Keats

  Wine, Agony, Names

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.307, e-artnow

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