Everlasting

Famous quotes containing the word everlasting:

“But this place is too cold for hell. I’ll devil-porter it no further; I had thought to have let in some of all professions that go the primrose way to th’ everlasting bonfire.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)

“The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)