Quotes About Continuity

What attaches us to other human beings is the thousand tiny roots, the innumerable threads formed by memories of the previous evening, hopes for the following morning; it is this continuous web of habit from which we cannot extricate ourselves

We seldom notice how each day is a holy place Where the eucharist of the ordinary happens, Transforming our broken fragments Into an eternal continuity that keeps us.

I believe that people who find each other in this life will find each other in the next.

But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again.

Things do not change with a change of scene.

Nothing stops, Mac. If you were able to put an idea into effect tomorrow, it would start changing right away.

I knew without a glimmer of doubt that all things in the universe were connected by a living truth that would not relent its continuing search for wholeness until every form of life was united.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

Broken today, healed tomorrow. There's nothing mysterious about how life works, it just goes on.

The first thing assured by beginning is the end.

You are not here to fix anything, because nothing is broken, but everything is continually changing and expanding. Release your struggle, and seek joy and fun, and in doing so, you will align with the fantastic expanding rhythm of this Universe.

all this made of the church for me something entirely different from the rest of the town: an edifice occupying, so to speak, a four-dimensional space—the name of the fourth being Time—extending through the centuries its ancient nave, which, bay after bay, chapel after chapel, seemed to stretch across and conquer not merely a few yards of soil, but each successive epoch from which it emerged triumphant,

the morrow would not be different from all the days that had gone before;

For what we suppose to be our love, our jealousy are, neither of them, single, continuous and individual passions. They are composed of an infinity of successive loves, of different jealousies, each of which is ephemeral, although by their uninterrupted multitude they give us the impression of continuity, the illusion of unity.

Even if we live in a hermetically sealed compartment, associations of ideas, memories continue to act upon us.

Pois o que nós julgamos seja o nosso amor, o nosso ciúme, não é uma mesma paixão contínua, indivisível. Compõem-se eles de uma infinidade de amores sucessivos, de ciúmes diferentes, mas, por sua multidão ininterrupta, dão a impressão da continuidade, a ilusão da unidade.

Car ce que nous croyons notre amour, notre jalousie, ce n'est pas une même passion continue, indivisible. Ils se composent d'une infinité d'amours successifs, de jalousies différentes et qui sont éphémères, mais par leur multitude ininterrompue donnent l'impression de la continuité, l'illusion de l'unité.

I could almost disappear and the world would go on, a never-ending sentence without a pause.