Quotes About Timeless

Timeless literature keeps infinitely expanding, like the universe.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Literature lights the ages.

Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still that lovely ghost appears, Too fair, too pure, to bid depart; No riper love of later years Can steal its beauty from the heart.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

With a single candle, night burns into infinity.

Photographs are wordless history.

A poem should be motionless in time As the moon climbs.

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

A good maxim is never out of season.

The most beautiful antiques are not found in stores.

Silence is the uninterrupted sound of forever.

I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are more apropos now than ever. They were The House of Mirth and The Children, which is about how life in the United States in New York changed in twenty-seven years fifty years ago. ("Wants")

It is described by some as a moment when the world stops moving...it did just that for me. I knew before she said one word or made a single movement, that our lives would begin to dissolve into each other... we would never part again. This was not love at first sight, but rather second. I had fallen in love at eleven; now I was twenty and now all things were possible.

Grandfather Michael

A heart that loves is always young.

The heart that loves is always young.

That's it. That's all there is. The cosmos has no shape at all – no such thing as time or distance, no physical laws, no cause and effect.

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?" "That depends." "On what?" "On how I want to feel.

So when did these last two originate? They transcend "whenness," but if I must give a naive answer—when the Father did. When was that? There has not been a "when" when the Father has not been in existence. This, then, is true of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Put another question and I will answer it. Since when has the Son been begotten? Since as long as the Father has not been begotten.

the Arthurian material was never merely 'legends'; it was a myth—a timeless, universal story with many meanings.

My Autumn eternal O my spiritual season

Oh my shadow. Oh my ancient serpent.

Even the automobiles have an air of antiquity here.