Endless Quotes

• 

  Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

  Erich Fromm

  Effort, Greed, Needs

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.121, Open Road Media

  140 Copy quote

  Show source

• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  441 Copy quote
• 

  The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.29, Vintage

  109 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Inspiration, Funny Relationship

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.455, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  Plato

  Death, Memorial Day, Plato

  51 Copy quote

• Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

  Jean Vanier

  Love, Forgiveness, Love Is

  54 Copy quote

• Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Grief, Sadness

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.7, Faber & Faber

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

  Mary Oliver

  Work, Positivity, Attention

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays”, p.35, Beacon Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Life, Forgiveness, Spiritual

  77 Copy quote

• Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Life, Pain

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison”, p.283

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

  Lawrence Durrell

  History, Historical, Way

  1978 In The Listener, 20 Apr.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

  Roma Downey

  Girlfriend, Reading, Play

  6 Copy quote

• To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  118 Copy quote

• There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

  Marion Milner

  Roots, Causes, Obstacles

  Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.157, Taylor & Francis

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

  Joe Garagiola

  Sports, Baseball, Running

  32 Copy quote

• Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

  Zeno of Citium

  Fate, Goes On, World

  71 Copy quote

• I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

  Shirley Knight

  Film, Odd, Endless Love

  52 Copy quote

• When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

  Kenneth Koch

  Jewels, Awful, Boxes

  4 Copy quote

• I think that music has an endless life.

  Anne Dudley

  Thinking, Musical, Endless Life

  4 Copy quote

• Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads

  Mother Jones

  Girl, Boys, Hands

  57 Copy quote

• Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

  Barry Sheene

  Doe, Bores, Motorbike

  4 Copy quote

• I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

  Ed O'Brien

  Watches, Tvs, Presses

  4 Copy quote

• Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

  Fritz Zwicky

  Home, Tired, House

  9 Copy quote

• Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Clerks, Palaces, Mock

  4 Copy quote