Quotes About Continuity

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.

These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

In the race for quality, there is no finish line.

Antiquity and modernity are cut from the same cloth. That is to say, our sense of things being 'ancient' is produced—both historically and in practice—by the sense that we ourselves are 'modern'.

Always. Stay always. Always.

A cord that remains, always. in many ways...

Your assignment is a pre-cursor to someone else's assignment. In the same breath, someone else's assignment is a pre-cursor to yours.

El de entonces soy yo todavía, o si no soy él soy su prolongación, o su sombra, o su heredero, o su usurpador. No hay ningún otro que se le parezca tanto.

no one is ever the last person anywhere, there is always someone who crosses later on.

love will go down as the fear of divination, or the source of continuity within divinity.

Istoria nu are niciodat? sfâr?it.

Moi, je ne meurs pas. Je continue. Je suis hier, aujourd'hui, demain.

desfiin??m timpul prin repetare.

Am înlocuit dintotdeauna, de când exist? neamul nostru, banul, care poate fi al oricui, cu onoarea, care nu-i decât a noastr?. Aceast? onoare se nume?te fidelitate. De îndat? ce vreo fisur?, oricât e mic?, se va ivi în edificiul mereu neterminat al continuit??ii noastre, se va apropia momentul în care el se va pr?bu?i în întregime.

The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece of carpeting, empty and naked plains, silent and uninterrupted stretches with nothing to alter the homogeneity of their continuity. I love wide, homogenous worlds, unstaked, unlimited like the sea, like high snows, deserts, and steppes.

Guys were first effigies, then urchins. But always male

But the past was never erased, probably because there's just too much of it. Everything in France is built on layers of other things that existed before. The present in France is only a compromise between the past and the present.

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

ONE OF LIFE'S great blessings is that death and tragedy are never allowed to take full possession. Life goes on. People say it bitterly, as if one ought to be occupied solely with the current disaster. In fact we couldn't cope if, in the midst of crisis, people didn't eat and drink and relax a bit and comfort one another.

There was no moment like any other moment and yet each moment was the same.

There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it's raining today and it's going to rain tomorrow and the next day, the next week and the next century.

Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.

there are only hallucinations, or perceptions, and that there are neither nights nor days...and that life is continuous; yet that one would never be aware of its continuity, nor even that life exists without these pendulum movements; and life is primarily verified by the beating of the heart