Quotes About Continuity

Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

And any ending that may seem to come is not truly an ending, but an illusion. For Time does not die, Time has neither beginning nor end, and so nothing can end or die that has once had a place in Time.

Eu estava pensando, Ursula disse a Quentin, que a diferença entre uma história e uma pintura ou uma fotografia é que numa história você pode escrever Ele continua vivo. Mas numa pintura ou numa foto não dá para representar esse continua. Você pode apenas mostrá-lo estando vivo. Ele continua vivo, Stephen disse.

How can a country's history be chopped off as though it were irrelevant

Sembrava esserci una strana, dolce continuità in quell'amoreggiare incerto e reverente, eppure, in un certo senso, era come se fosse la prima volta mentre facevamo l'amore tra le rovine dei sogni di Jake. Ed era la prima volta. La prima volta che stavamo insieme senza segreti e restrizioni. Eravamo nudi… in ogni modo possibile.

the generations broken, the family broken, to be repaired like a dropped pot or snarled ark of reeds, that unshakeable Jew belief in continuity, narrative, plot, in plopping myself in creaky unreclinable chairs around tables of prickly leaves to commiserate through recitation: flight into Egypt, plagues, flight out of Egypt, desert and plagues—a travail so repeated without manumission that it becomes its own travail, and so the tradition is earned.

A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part.

She exists in me now, just as I will and already do within my grandchildren. No one ever truly dies. The desires of our hearts make a path. We create legacy with our thoughts and dreams.

Circles are absolutely vital.

Leía libros antiguos porque todo horizonte viene de otro atrás.

El momento presente no tiene más fundamento que su parentesco con el pasado.

il brusio di un milione di menti che ronzano / di continuo, / in lenta disgregazione

I find it helpful when I stop for the day to leave the last sentence unfinished or the last paragraph only lightly sketched out, so that when I start again I can pick up where I left off the day before.

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must "log on" somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

The past is like the night: dark but sacred. It's the time when most of us sleep, so we think of the day as the time we really live, the only time that matters, because the stuff we do by day somehow makes us who we are. We feel the same way about the present. We say, let bygones be bygones... Water under the bridge. But there is no day without night, no wakefulness without sleep, no present without past. They are constantly somersaulting over each other.

It's really important to me that the songs not only stand out individually but work as a full body of work, too.

The Earth isn't an infinite sheet that carries on for ever, but it doesn't have an edge, either. It's compact and connected.

Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

The past can influence the future. When you finish one chapter, you open another, which will be influenced by what you've just lived through.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble.

I am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes.

An institution is beyond any individual. It breathes and lives on its own and always will.

Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.