Quotes About Timeless

Literature is the immortality of speech.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

Aartis and spiritual songs never get dated.

I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years.

'The Muppet Show' spoke to me at 5, and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.

I have a thing for things that last.

If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only 100 years ago is ridiculous.

To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.

...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can they.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

What are you doing?" Dengo would ask him. "Observing," father would say. "But how long can you observe the same thing?" "Forever.

Complaints about the demise of society and the "youth of today" also tend to be timeless. Consider this pronouncement, inscribed on an Assyrian tablet circa 2800 B.C.: Our earth is degenerate these days . . . bribery and corruption abound, children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and the end of the world is evidently approaching.

Everything that occurs in the world, in every epoch, has something that corresponds to it in ancient times.

iPhones are not the Elgin Marbles, or Stonehenge, or anything else where part of the miracle is that it lasts.

I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this

I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are, and always have been, the best thing in my life

And I thought also about the love they'd always felt for each other—like stars in the daytime sky, unseen, but always present.

In my thoughts forever.