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Quotes About Timeless

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
~ William Styron
Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
~ Zhuangzi
The real you is timeless and beyond life and death.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
~ Kabir
The only way to kill death is through photography.
~ Jean Cocteau
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
~ Edmund Spenser
Death keeps no calendar.
~ George Herbert
The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.
~ Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts
It was all remarkable. Good-bye, remarkable. Egypt and Greece good-bye, and good-bye, Rome!
~ Philip Roth
It was puzzling to own trees—they were not owned the way a business is owned or even a house is owned. If anything, they were held in trust. In trust. Yes, for all of posterity
~ Philip Roth
I can view prayer as a way of asking a timeless God to intervene more directly in our time-bound life on earth. (Indeed, I do so all the time, praying for the sick, for the victims of tragedy, for the safety of the persecuted church.)
~ Philip Yancey
Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
~ Unknown
I wanted my children and grandchildren to know that no matter when you are born or where you live, happiness and disappointments have the same flavors the world over.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today that it ever was.
~ Unknown
Qué es lo que es siempre y no deviene y qué, lo que deviene continuamente, pero nunca es?
~ Platon
Books are immortal sons defying their sires.
~ Plato
In the face of our common dangers, in this wintr of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come.
~ Unknown
Tant d'histoire, dit le duc d'Auge au duc d'Auge, tant d'histoire pour quelques calembours, pour quelques anachronismes! Je trouve cela misérable. On n'en sortira donc jamais?
~ Unknown
Books spoke mind to mind, soul to soul across the abyss of time and distance.
~ Rachel Caine
Nick stands up and offers his hand to me. I have no idea what he wants, but what the hell, I take his hand anyway, and he pulls me up on my feet then presses against me for a slow dance and it's like we're in a dream where he's Christopher Plummer and I'm Julie Andrews and we're dancing on the marble floor of an Austrian terrace garden. Somehow my head presses Nick's t-shirt and in this moment I am forgetting about time and Tal because maybe my life isn't over. Maybe it's only beginning.
~ Rachel Cohn
history, soulless god though it was, never failed to offer what must be understood.
~ Rachel Kadish
Was du schaffst überdauert die Zeit.
~ Rafik Schami