Quotes About Continuity

Humans are here today because our particular line never fractured—never once at any of the billion points that could have erased us from history." We

History is time that won't quit.

Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin...

There is only continual motion. If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad. There is so much, and I am torn in different directions, pulled thin, taut against horizons too distant for me to reach. Swift, ceaseless pace. Will I never rest in sunlight again - slow, languid & golden with peace?

Pensé que la letra minúscula al principio podía significar que nunca nada era en su comienzo realmente nuevo, con mayúscula, sino que todo fluía de lo anterior.

I could not run without having to run forever

No poet, no artist of any art has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists.

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

We die with the dying; See, they depart, and we go with them. We are born with the dead: See, they return, and bring us with them.

We die with the dying; see they return and bring us with them.

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...

The central riddle I've set out to solve concerns the self's continuity in change: how can we remain the same people over time, even as we change, sometimes considerably?

Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and Wallace struggled like Laocoöns with the serpentine problem of human evolution and its encoiling difficulty of consciousness. But where Darwin clouded the problem with his own naivete, seeing only continuity in evolution, Wallace could not do so.

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

Keep going and never stop.

All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That everything should continue as usual is the bourgeois standard of a reality that is indeed bourgeois precisely because it is a standard.

en la tierra común donde las palabras y las caricias y las bocas los envolvían como la circunferencia al círculo, esas metáforas tranquilizadoras, esa vieja tristeza satisfecha de volver a ser el de siempre, de continuar, de mantenerse a flote contra viento y marea, contra el llamado y la caída.

No son razones, son mostraciones perfectamente objetivas. Vos tendés a moverte en el continuo, como dicen los físicos, mientras que yo soy sumamente sensible a la discontinuidad vertiginosa de la existencia.

Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life. Happy was she who was in the room, who had the freedom of the city in everything that she touched or came in contact with, a fish swimming downstream, a leaf on a tree, a cloud in the sky, an image in a poem. Fish, leaf, cloud, image: that's it precisely, unless…

To have a child was to receive the gift of true immortality—not time stopped, as it had stopped in Amy, but time continuing and everlasting.

As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone.

As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.

One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the heart was not all there was to life.

Hier bleibt alles beim Alten. Das war schon immer so.