Quotes About Continuity

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

history is a living thing that never dies.

Every moment before this one depends on this one.

The end of the world has come often, and continues to often come.

In my dream, spring came after summer, came after fall, came after winter, came after spring.

So, naturalists observe, a flea hath smaller fleas that on him prey; and these have smaller still to bite 'em; and so proceed ad infinitum.

I kept asking myself how a book could be infinite. I could not imagine any other than a cyclic volume, circular. A volume whose last page would be the same as the first and so have the possibility of continuing indefinitely.

Cuando esté muerto, copiarás a otro y luego a otro

comprendí que el incesante y vasto universo ya se apartaba de ella y que ese cambio era el primero de una serie infinita.

Faptele grave se petrec în afara timpului, fie din pricin? c? trecutul imediat parc? se rupe de viitor, fie din pricin? c? p?rÈ›ile alc?tuitoare nu par s? se înl?nÈ›uiasc? firesc.

the present engenders the past far more energetically than the other way around.

Only birth can conquer death — the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new. Within the soul, within the body social, there must be — if we are to experience long survival — a continuous "recurrence of birth" (palingenesia) to nullify the unremitting recurrences of death.

You can keep an old tradition going only by renewing it in terms of current circumstances.

So the essence of life is this eating of itself! Life lives on lives

Ah, I think that nothing in the world vanishes utterly—nothing—not only what is said, but what is thought. All our deeds and words and thoughts are little streams, trickling springs underground.

In nature there are few sharp lines.

Music must always flow, for that is part of its very essence, but the creation of that continuity and flow--that long line-- constitutes the be-all and end-all of every composer's existence.

never stop trying and never try stopping

All water is connected and only land and people are discontinuous. And his land is a place where he can no longer stay.

there's no going back; time and water move on relentlessly.

All water is connected and only land and people are discontinuous. And

All water is connected and only land and people are discontinuous

This is the thing I have discovered: Michael's being gone doesn't mean we stop trying to save him. The strain is less but it doesn't vanish. It becomes part of our bewilderment, a kind of activity without motive, which provides its own strange continuity.

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.