Quotes About Timeless

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

newspapers do not have to have a screaming headline saying that nothing new is taking place (though the Bible was smart enough to declare ein chadash tachat hashemesh—" nothing new under the sun," providing the information that things just do recur).

Empirically, if you want an author to cross a few generations

You've got nothing that lasts, you know. That's not the first town that ever stood there. There was one before that, and one before that, and one before that one, on back for 900 years. But this tree has stood here all along. What do you make of that, boy?

That's what us Tucks are, Winnie. Stuck so's we can't move on. We ain't part of the wheel no more. Dropped off, Winnie. Left behind. And everywhere around us, things is moving and growing and changing.

For Mae Tuck, and her husband, and Miles and Jesse, too, had all looked exactly the same for eighty-seven years.

It reminds me that some forces of nature can never be entirely subdued. They are eternal, which is a far better thing to be than immortal.

Her husband of more than ninety years was gleaned five years prior. Now she wanted to be with him, wherever he was, and if he was nowhere, then at least they would be nowhere together.

Immortality has turned us all into cartoons

Faith is an unfortunate casualty of immortality.

For truly, Lord, the clearest proofs That we can give of our nobility, Are these impassioned sobs that through the ages roll, And die away upon the shore of your Eternity.

palabra que exprese la idea en cuestión. Se trata, en su caso, de rescatar de lo histórico cuanto la moda contenga de poético, de extraer lo eterno de lo transitorio.

Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.

My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you.

God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.

miracle I have just listened to this symphony which Mozart dashed off in one day and it had enough wild and crazy joy to last forever, whatever forever is Mozart came as close as possible to that.

My heart is a thousand years old.

Sutradan sam otišao do mrtva?nice Srebrna mirna luka da i tamo provjerim stvari. Vraški dobar posao - nikad mort sezone.

None can reply - all seems eternal now. The wilderness has a mysterious tongue, which teaches awful doubt.

but I see the resentments of the dead are eternal.

The empire of the Pharaohs was old before Rome was a twinkling in Odysseus's eye, wise before China had been discovered, and over and done with before our founding fathers came down from Mount Olympus to give us the Bible and the US Constitution—

They'll never grow old—never feel fear and cold, hunger or pain, or the sorrows of lost love or the pity of the young. While they have missed much, these men who won't see their sons in their mothers' arms, or the moon over a summer sea, or the beauty of a rose, they have what we all look for in the end—eternal springtime. It is not their grief but ours that haunts us.

If I read something somebody wrote 300 years ago, and it's me, what I'm going through now in my head, it sends chills down my spine, and I feel like that's what I want to be able to offer — that if I offer myself, there's a chance somebody else will feel connected.