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Quotes About Timelessness

although we hear the buzz in our ears and the crashing of jaws at our heels, we can look around as those who are nibbled but unbroken, from the shimmering vantage of the living. Here may not be the cleanest, newest place, but that clean timeless place that vaults on either side of this one is no place at all.
~ Annie Dillard
Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
~ John Milton
Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.
~ John Muir
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.
~ John Piper
death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.
~ John Shelby Spong
She went on slowly and dreamily along the shore. Beautiful women do not need to hurry.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
The less I'm in a hurry, the quicker the results seem to happen. With patience, the quality of my experience has a depth that can't be measured bon the clock, but by the timelessness of my experience.
~ Baron Baptiste
Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.
~ James Montgomery
I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.
~ John Travolta
How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?
~ Antony Gormley
I try not to rely on pop culture references as a crutch for jokes, because then, I think, that's when the timelessness quality is lost.
~ Paul Rust
Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.
~ David Whyte
I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court.
~ Maria Sharapova
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
~ Thomas Mann
I want to be fashion's Erykah Badu. What I admire about her is her timelessness and her fearless approach.
~ Kerby Jean-Raymond
Travel and timelessness mean everything to me, and making clothes that resonate with the modern it-girl is what I knew I needed to do.
~ Eva Gutowski
So much respect is given to artists who are doing things that seems sort of timeless and legitimate. That kind of legitimacy and timelessness is to me sort of the opposite of what pop music should be.
~ Ron Mael
We're really focused on being 'of no time.' We studied the idea of timelessness, looking at what designs in history have become timeless.
~ Miguel McKelvey
I concern myself with timelessness all the time. If you're not swinging for museum quality, your mind is not in the right place. It doesn't mean you get there, but at least it's the intent.
~ Rodney Crowell
My own girlhood felt like something from 1650 even when it was happening. The little parties, kindnesses done by friends, the light as I walked home from school. Pine needles. I spent those days feeling half-there, not quite committed to that life.
~ Sarah Manguso
Love is unbounded by time
~ Sarah Ruhl
They have failed to understand the timelessness of Babylon, that Babylon is always with us. One careful reading of the major chapters about Babylon is all one needs to form a Babylonian hermeneutic that provides discernment of Babylon in America and in its churches. Yet repeated failed readings of Revelation have today led to a failure to discern Babylon.
~ Scot McKnight
I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.
~ Tyra Banks