Quotes About Continuity

Consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events that go before are soon covered by those that come after.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

It was like that old riddle about replacing the handle of an axe, and later the head—when you were done, was it a new axe or the old one?

For the past is not fixed: it changes as we change, and we look back and perceive in it different messages, different patterns. Our past selves speak to our future selves. We are part of a continuing process.

Life and death aren't as different from each other as I thought they were. This isn't like walking into a new country. This is like walking into a new room in the same house. This is like sharing a hallway and the same row of framed family pictures, but there's a glass wall between.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

No matter what happens throughout the day when you lay down at night you will always be the same person you were when you woke up

Life can be funny and serious. We either laugh over it or cry over it. But Life itself doesn't care about such reactions. It goes on.

La intención subterránea, es seguir existiendo después del fin. Y a esos efectos tanto sirve la existencia de un hijo como la de una cicatriz. Después de todo, también el hijo es una cicatriz.

By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways, as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain of continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the

If you look out at nature, you find that as you tend to see suspended animation, you tend to see immortality.

We thus see the artist performing a dual function: first, furthering the integrity of the process of self-expression in the language of art; and secondly, protecting the organic continuity of art in relation to its own laws. For like any organic substance, art must always be in a state of flux, the tempo being slow or fast. But it must move.

How can I sing? Time tells me what I am. I change and I am the same. I empty myself of my life and my life remains.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

In a funny way, the stories keep themselves alive by emerging from one another. I like that.

The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.