Quotes About Continuity

The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . the novel's spirit is the spirit of continuity. . . . a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future.

The fact that today's boyfriend bears a strange resemblance to yesterday's makes him even more exceptional, even more original, and she believes that he is mysteriously predestined for her.

Ainsi m'étais-je petit à petit habitué au fait que ma vie avait perdu sa continuité, qu'elle m'était tombée des mains et qu'il ne me resterait plus qu'à commencer enfin à être, même dans mon for intérieur, là où je me trouvais réellement et sans appel.

With these coming children we never relinquish the past. We keep seeing somebody gone in each new one.

If you time-travel to the past, you can't change it any more than you can change the value of pi. If you travel to the past, you are, will be, and always were part of the past, the very same past that leads to your traveling to it.

Storytellers are the keepers - we are the time keepers, the continuity keepers. We are the people who tell us who we are, where we've come from, and maybe even where we're going.

Each instant was different and new and unrepeatable. That was the very nature of time, ceaselessly realizing itself, in every life.

In my end is my beginning. —T. S. Eliot

To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.

How close the past looms, circling the present like a dead moon, lifting slow repetitious tides on the living planet.

Life went on, no matter the magnitude of the events that influenced it.

It never ends, really, does it? You overcome one obstacle, one evil, one enemy, and another steps into the unoccupied space. We persevere, but it isn't ever really over for us. Not even for those who don't want any part of it.

As with all things, time's wheel will come around once more. Then

past, it's so now, and I would be willing to bet it'll be so forever.

The trick is to keep cutting the present off from the past. In this way, you can try to deny the fact that the past is what we are made of, and that there would be no present without it. One of the several problems with this way of living is that it is not clear how what is reborn every moment can be said to be you. Personal identity involves a degree of continuity.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS, STAYS HAPPENED. What kind of philosophy is that? THE ONLY ONE THAT WORKS.

They think they want good government and justice for all, Vimes, yet what is it they really crave, deep in their hearts? Only that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today.

There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings. The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired - but that's not the start. The play, the game, the war is just a little window on a ribbon of events that may extend back thousands of years. The point is, there's always something before. It's always a case of Now Read On.

Tomorrow here is just like yesterday, warmed over.

Our presence here means the presence of all our ancestors. They are still alive in us. Every time we smile, all the generations of our ancestors, our children, and the generations to come—all of whom are within us—smile too. We practice not just for ourselves, but for everyone, and the stream of life continues.

In the dimension of space and time, We chew as rhythmically as we breathe. Maintaining the lives of all our ancestors, Opening an upward path for descendants.

Whole branches of Judaism may wither and fall, but the trunk remains

The leaves that remain are only a very small part of the tea. The tea that goes into me is a much bigger part of the tea. It is the richest part. We are the same; our essence has gone into our children, our friends, and the entire universe. We have to find ourselves in those directions and not in the spent tea leaves.