Quotes About Timeless

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.

Sublime moments refracted, Even if only for seconds, Caught forever in your soul.

The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.

That which is true must be infinite and eternal. That is the one test of truth. It never decays, it is always the same.

Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.

Mankind are always happy for having happiness. So if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it.

I want you forever, not just for tonight.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

She was older, no longer the wicked limber girl with the stalled Vespa, but no less beautiful to me for that: whatever elliptical beauty Cassie possesses has always lain not in the vulnerable planes of color and texture but deeper, in the polished contours of her bones.

Love things that last

It's exciting to see things coming up again, plants that you've had twenty or thirty years. It's like seeing an old friend.

The tree is untouched by whatever worries we humans fret over. I think about how it was here before I was born and it will be here after we're all gone. Maybe this should make me sad, but it doesn't.

Never be born, never be died.

Like the New Orleans tradition that preceded it, and the Swing Era offerings that followed it, Chicago jazz was not just the music of a time and place, but also a timeless style of performance - and for its exponents, very much a way of life - one that continues to reverberate to this day in the works of countless Dixieland and traditional jazz bands around the world. For many listeners, the Chicago style remains nothing less than the quintessential sound of jazz.

'Grease' is the most successful thing I've ever been part of. It spans generations.

I am not at all in a rush to make a career that only lasts for a short span of time.

Fundamentally speaking, bodies age; feelings don't.

When I think about my own relationships to the women that I really loved, it feels like that love, even after we've broken up and we're no longer speaking, that love never goes away. No one told me that.

I sensed that Confucius is an interesting character. This is someone who lived over 2,500 years ago and is still speaking to us. That people are still reading and repeating what he said so long ago is something I find quite fascinating.

I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change.

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?