Quotes About Continuity

"There's no such thing as death" — In nature, nothing dies; From each sad remnant of decay Some forms of life arise. The faded leaf that falls All sere and brown to earth, Ere long will mingle with the shapes That give the floweret birth.

The first step binds one to the second.

Na?ini in oblike pripovedovanja se spreminjajo s ?asom in razmerami, potreba po pripovedi in pripovedovanju pa ostaja, pripoved te?e naprej in pripovedovanju ni konca. Tako je v?asih videti, kakor da ?loveštvo od prvega pobliska zavesti skozi stoletja pripoveduje samo sebi v milijon variantah vzporedno z dihanjem svojih plju? in z ritmom svojega utripa ves ?as isto pripoved.

Those into whose lives you are born do not pass away. Slow Man

Life is full of circles

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. THOMAS CARLYLE

Those into whose lives you are born do not pass away.

Time keeps on... slippin'... slippin'... slippin' into the future.

Time keeps on...slippin'...slippin'...slippin' into the future, Adrian drawled as he walked around

Christianity is a religion of continuity and discontinuity as well. It's about what stays the same and what changes in the twinkling of an eye. Both are necessary truths, but sometimes it's important to accentuate the discontinuity, the sudden leap, the way you go up a tree, Zacchaeus, and come down a saint.

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

Only that which was effective for the first of this community will be effective for the last of it

History repeats itself.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.

The whole world is a gigantic legacy. Imagine having to start afresh each generation: who would invent the wheel, devise the lever, construct the alphabet and multiplication table? I could not; could you?

But there's no pause in real life. There's also no rewind. And there's definitely no delete. There's just now running on and on, and you can't ever stop it, no matter what you do.

Success is not success without a successor.

I hear a bird sing or a dog bark or the sound of an axe on wood - and I feel a sense of stability, I feel that I am important, that I am continuous and integral.

You, I hope, are one of those explorers. You, I hope, found these sheets of copper and deciphered the words engraved on their surfaces. And whether or not your brain is impelled by the air that once impelled mine, through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.

Each moment follows inexorably from the previous one and is followed inexorably by the next, links forged in a causal chain.