Quotes About Timeless

On the stage it is always now.

Love is its own eternity.

it is human nature which does not change, no matter the era or situation.

The shengren is above philosophy and beyond religion. He is decisively not European. This will be read in a thousand years.

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

Wise words, although written by my decaying hand, remain imperishable through time; Imbued with the medicine of immortality by the All-Master. Be unseen and undiscovered by all those who will come and go, wandering the wastelands of life. Be hidden, until an older heaven births human beings who are worthy of your wisdom.

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?

I'm not interested in disposable music.

I'm not interested in fad songs.

I try to write something that has a common ground to everyone. But there's been nothing new in music since Bach; he put every note in the world on a piece of paper.

I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.

I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world.

I had the fortune to evolve at a time when fashion was very important, and women dressed themselves very well. A woman who dressed very well also had a husband who would have beautiful collections of art and decorative objects.

I don't write political music. Political music is immediately obsolete.

Live your life and forget your age.

Human nature is universial, and it endures through all cultures and epochs. This is the secret of perenniality of certain poems and books.

Die ewige Gegenwart der Götter

experience is comparable to fashion; an action that proved successful today will be unworkable and impractical tomorrow. Only principles endure

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

When you know something, really know something, it tends to stand the test of time.

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.