Quotes About Continuity

All history is nothing but wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other.

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

This is how my love for her goes on: in moments remembered and moments imagined. It's how I keep her alive. Hers is the voice in my head, my conscience. I see the world, at least in part, through her eyes. Her story—which is the story of a time and land and the indomitable will of a people—is my story; two lives woven together, and like any good story, ours will begin and end and begin again. Love is what remains.

We must honor the past without turning our backs on the future.

Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead

Nothing resembles today so much as tomorrow.

Cette année, pareille à tant d'autres, n'avait pas été l'année de la Fin du monde et nul ne songeait à s'en étonner.

The present could never be untethered from the past, you couldn't understand one without the other.

The present could never be untethered from the past, you couldn't understand one without the other. "I heard," I said, and turned

I am a link in a chain

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true death.

Today exists between yesterday and tomorrow.

The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'.

Everything is always happening all at once, in the present tense, forever, the beginning and the end and the denouement and the remaindering.

Comparatively, our private blunders are insignificant. Just part of the general pattern of human awfulness. We map our little disasters onto a beautiful picture of a great one, so that there's continuity. So that there's balance. We fail because we always fail. It's not our fault. For evidence, see the paradise we lack.

an unbroken line of unrelated people

Jamey wouldn't be saying goodbye because he would continue to be Reece's social worker and, I hoped (after our chat on the phone), would be seeing more of Reece in the future. It

like the Catholic Church, universities today bear a striking structural resemblance to what they were

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

A sound that continues. A sun that's always shining. Everything stays the same. Nothing changes.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

Nuestra herencia de tambores batientes ha de continuar latiendo en la sangre de estas generaciones. Es lo único, Yarince, que permaneció: la resistencia.