Quotes About Timeless

There was something about Great-Uncle Merry that was like the hills, or the sea, or the sky; something ancient, but without age or end.

No, he didn't win," Great-Uncle Merry said, and even in the clear afternoon sunshine he seemed with every word to become more remote, as ancient as the rock behind him and the old world of which he spoke.

It was the beauty of a thousand yesterdays and perhaps of a thousand tomorrows, timeless Cashelmara, geometrically perfect, splendidly stark

I'm a forever kind of guy, he murmured, right before he kissed her. That's how long I want.

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art—like physical beauty in a person—is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

No, this was the kind of moment that made everything stop. You separated it from every other one, pressing the feeling to your heart, like a dried flower slipped between the pages of a beloved book. The moment was made of something fragile and delicate, yet it possessed the power to last forever.

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.

Our boredom was ongoing, a collective boredom, and it would never die because we would never die.

Besides, it's great to buy something you know you can use the rest of your life, then pass on to your grandkids, and that when those kids are old, it'll still be doing its job well. How many things are there like that left in life? Maybe good movies.

Porque todo eso es para decirlo una vez y olvidarlo; o basta con decirlo así para que perdure.

Hamlet o Macbeth se leen maravillosamente hoy; muy al contrario, me parece, de lo que ocurre con tantos otros que dependen de la escena

La mañana entera, con su cuerpo incluso que la atraviesa desplazándose sobre las baldosas grises, y el yo impalpable y ubicuo que lleva adentro, desaparecen detrás de las imágenes que, ya casi definitivas, son, aunque vengan de la memoria, intemporales, y más indestructibles, podría decirse, que el aliento y la carne que las contienen.

Mob of beings and things! --A true sadness, because you are really deep in the soul, as they say, not in time at all!

Ese sueño que eres tú todavía dura. Durará siempre, porque siento como que estás dentro de mi sangre y pasas por mi corazón a cada rato.

Forever," he whispered. "I will love you throughout time.

Beauty knows no time', he said softly, rising, and kissing her hand.

There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.

In this sense, Byzantine culture embodies the French historian Fernand Braudel's notion of the longue durée , the long term: that which survives the vicissitudes of changing governments, newfangled fashions or technological improvements, an ongoing inheritance that can both imprison and inspire.

Summer was a forever season, and held no pain.

And above it all, the gentle, eternal stars.

In Krons Kopf hatten sich die verschiedenen Versionen seiner selbst über die Jahre zu einer leidlich friedlichen Gruppe versammelt. Der sechzehnjährige Kron lebte genauso weiter wie der fünfunddreißig-; sechzig- und siebzigjährige. Sie saßen beisammen, schwiegen oder unterhielten sich. [...] Kron war nicht älter, sondern zahlreicher geworden.

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.