Quotes About Timeless

A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You.

Maybe this is because I'm a comics historian as much as anything else, but I really have a deep-seated respect for the characters that have been around since before I was born and are probably going to outlive me.

For Blanc & Eclare, we go by the motto 'modern classic,' and that kind of comes from me because I don't like to overdo things and I try to be as natural as possible.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

Let me let you in on a little secret," he writes. "If you are hearing about something old, it is almost certainly good. Why? Because nobody wants to talk about shitty old stuff, but lots of people still talk about shitty new stuff, because they are still trying to figure out if it is shitty or not. The past wasn't better, we just forgot about all the shitty shit.

Bliss, I learned from being sodomized, is an experience of eternity in a moment of real time.

I am a wave on a shoreless sea. From no beginning I travel to no goal, Making my movements stillness. Constantly I am arriving And departing, Being born and dying. I am always with you And yet have never been.

Soy un chico —contestó Jared—. Y, bueno, ésta es mi hermana. Una chica. —Ésa no es una chica —replicó—. ¿Dónde está su vestido? —Los vestidos pasaron de moda hace siglos —dijo Mallory con una sonrisa maliciosa.

everything/ that ever was still is, somewhere

Fuck,' I said after a while, because like a little black dress it's the old standby.

Not the old, not the new, but the necessary.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

when asked how he could remain so calm in a clutch situation: "Ten million years from now, when the sun burns out and the Earth is just a frozen snowball hurtling through space, nobody's going to care whether or not I got this guy out.

BACH! A colossal syllable, one which makes composers tremble, brings performers to their knees, beatifies the Bach-lover, and apparently bores the daylights out of everyone else

To die is to depart, to go away from these things forever and become one with the generations that have preceded us since the beginning of time, a whispered memory in the bones and whiskers of the generations to come.

So if you can make something that appeals to people today and would also have appealed to people in 1500, there is a good chance it will appeal to people in 2500.

I do not live in the present ... I AM the present.

Days you spend on the water are not deducted from your life," he said, and laughed. "Surfing keeps you from growing old.

They were all too young to die and always would be.

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.

Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don't know, but it's a world where there's no time, so space, no frontiers.

When we both experienced the love that consumes, we shared in the Absolute. The Absolute shows each of us who we really are; it is an enormous web of cause and effect, where every small gesture made by one person affects the life of someone else. This morning, that slice of the Absolute was still very much alive in my soul. I was seeing not only you but everything there is in the world, unlimited by space or time.

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

If what one finds is made of pure matter; it will never spoil. and one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing in return.