Quotes About Continuity

I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.

The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?

Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.

L'air était bleu, on le prenait dans la main. Bleu. Le ciel était cette palpitation continue de cette brillance de la lumière. La nuit éclairait tout, toute la campagne de chaque rive du fleuve jusqu'aux limites de la vue.

It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue, was right to boast that he had Victories for daughters.

Forse l'impossibilità di continuare ad esprimersi e a modificarsi con nuove azioni costituisce la sola differenza tra l'esser morti e l'esser vivi.

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?

we all do live in the ruins of the lives of other generations

it is true that we all do live in the ruins of the lives of other generations, so there is a seeming continuity which is important because it deceives us.

Je verandert ook nooit. Altijd raadsels, altijd verhaaltjes, altijd geheimen.

I think luxury is having a sense of personal continuity, of personal passion, in the midst of a busy public life, Julia postulates.

everything had changed but nothing was altered.

I believe we are more ready to embrace our lives in the here and now when we are able to recognize the continuity between the immanence of God in our world and eternity. Rather than simply waiting to be liberated to another time or place, we are being invited to collaborate in the healing and redemption of our world.

In other words, I heard life going on, and it was a comfort.

History is a wheel. This sort of world can't go on for ever either.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

In everything continuous and divisible, it is possible to grasp the more, the less, and the equal, and these either in reference to the thing itself, or in relation to us.