Quotes About Timeless

The spirit should never grow old.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.

What is Aldous capable of?" "Aldous is two thousands years old. He's capable of anything." "Aldous Nix is two thousands years old?" "So, I've heard. He doesn't invite me to his birthday parties.

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.

I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else.

Fiction can seem more enduring than reality. Pierre on the field of battle, the Bennet girls at their sewing, Tess on the threshing machine – all these are nailed down for ever, on the page and in a million heads. What happened to me on Charmouth beach in 1920, on the other hand, is thistledown.

I cannot write chronologically of Egypt. Ancient Egypt. So-called ancient Egypt. In my history of the world – this realistic kaleidoscopic history – Egypt will have its proper place as the complacent indestructible force that has perpetuated itself in the form of enough carved stone, painted plaster, papyri, granite, gold leaf, lapis lazulis, bits of pot and fragments of wood to fill the museums of thew world. Egypt is not then but now, conditioning the way we look at things.

There are no old movies really - only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.

How could there be any part of space that belonged to any specific species, because space had always been and would always be, long after the races that had staked their claims had vanished.

There are only two persons you can never, ever escape, not for one moment, either in time or in eternity: God and yourself.

A classic is like a cow: it gives fresh milk every morning. A classic is a book that rewards endlessly repeated reading. A classic is like the morning, like nature herself: ever young, ever renewing. No, not even like nature, for she, like us, is doomed to die. Only God is ever young, and only the Book he inspired never grows old.

I have all the time in the world," she said. "Literally.

That American [Philip Kapleau] was asking us whether it is possible for him to attain enlightenment in one week of sesshin. Tell him this for me: don't say days, weeks, years, or even lifetimes. Tell him to vow to attain enlightenment though it take the infinite, the boundless, the incalculable future.4

How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.

Pascal said, All history is one immortal man who continually learns.

It was a scene of ruin and despair, and of a ponderous, timeless, inertial heaviness.

Und wenn Sie einmal gewesen sind, werden Sie für immer existieren.

I am. I shall always be.

I'd say, Doc, I can see you under the aspect of eternity and you're dead.

What will survive of us is love. - from A Writer

On a great plain where no light shone from the iron-dark sky, and where a mist obscured the horizon on every side. The ground was bare earth, beaten flat by the pressure of millions of feet, even though those feet had less weight than feathers; so it must have been time that pressed it flat, even though time had been stilled in this place; so it must have been the way things were. This was the end of all places and the last of all worlds.

I want to live with you for ever. I want to kiss you and lie down with you and wake up with you every day of my life until I die, years and years and years away.

I want to live with you forever. I want to kiss you and lie down with you and wake up with you every day of my life till I die, years and years and years away. I don't want a memory, just a memory