Quotes About Continuation

The fundamental purpose of storytelling is to pass the time, which is infinite, slow, and weighs heavy in our hands. When the first storyteller, having told the first story, fell silent, somebody sitting there by the fire said, Then what happened? and the Age of Sequels began.

I felt cold just thinking about that, just how things come to an end, how death is subsumed in the pull of daily life, how a man or woman dies, and life goes on. There were no irrevocable losses.

Then the feeling moves on. It does not collapse; it is not whisked away. It simply moves on, like a train that stops at a small country station, stands for a while, and then continues out of sight.

Nobody's ever kept their sitcom character going after the show's off the air.

There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.

I'm still having fun and as long as skiing is enjoyable, I'm going to continue to do it.

Art and love survive war, revolution and death. Things continue. What we put into the earth while we are alive continues beyond us.

Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a newborn baby is born into the world.

Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete.

A poem is an interruption of silence, whereas prose is a continuation of noise.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

A tradition that doesn't have to be an imitation of something but a continuation, a branching out more than anything. One would have to conceive of tradition as something living, something that's continually changing and enriching itself through that change.

Truly there is no such thing as finality.

The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.

When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no metaphor, no brilliant final words. The culmination of the most influential piece of dramatic literature is, 'He dies.' Now I am not asking you to be happy at my leaving but all I ask you to do is to turn the page and let the next story begin. -- Mr. Magorium

And also, such waters never stop as long as there's life in me. There's no end to piss and spit.

Elk begin is tenslotte niets meer dan een vervolg. en het boek der gebeurtenissen ligt altijd open in het midden.

The end is just the beginning

My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is--all--over....

un mate es como un punto y aparte. Uno lo toma y después se puede empezar un nuevo párrafo.

Someone once told me that part of you lives on so long as somebody remembers you.

Think! There's nothing certain in our future! All we can hope for is a vague continuation. But in spite of that, you're going to keep on living. You can't give up on life just because it's vague. It's a question of possibilities.

wenn es soweit ist will ich dabei sein... wenn du allen anderen nicht mehr in die Augen schaust, als hätten sie dir gerade den Krieg erklärt und wenn du merkst... dass manches zwar aussieht wie das Ende der Welt, sie in Wahrheit aber weiter geht, drüben auf der anderen Seite.

Life continues, irrespective of whether we are there or not.