Quotes About Continuity

Life is full of circles

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else.

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.

We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

Life doesn't happen in chapters - at least, not regular ones.

equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring on it any special status.

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.

The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.

Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

Life's face is never the same though we may look at it for all eternity.

As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.

For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.

Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

I think our 'changes' are not as radical as we suppose - in some way we persist as us...

The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.

For nothing ever ends, really; stories lead to other stories, journeys across a thousand miles of ocean lead to journeys across a continent, and the meanings and interpretations of these stories are legion. 'Origins' are simply where we choose to pick up the story, dictating (and dictated by) what kind of story it is we wish to tell. 'Outcomes' are where we wearily draw to a close.

In many ways, history both begins and ends with questions; which is to say that it never really ends, but is a process.

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

To cut ourselves off from the past is to rob ourselves from understanding the present.