Quotes About Timeless

If we confine our attention entirely to the slang of the day - that is to say, if we devote ourselves exclusively to modern literature - we get to think the world is progressing when it is only repeating itself...It is only when one reads what men wrote long ago that one realizes how absolutely modern the best of the old things are.

But the eternal is not a thing which can be had regardless of the way in which it is acquired; no, the eternal is not really a thing, but is the way in which it is acquired.

There is a loss that is eternally irreparable; thus eternity—even more frightful—far from wiping out the recollection of what is lost, is an eternal recollection of what is lost!

Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal.

What you were is forever who you are.

The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

When Doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of being, that is success

As for Porthos, I believe him to be eternal, like God, although less patient.

Dove troverete, ditemi, un amore simile al mio, un amore che né il tempo, né la lontananza, né la disperazione possono spegnere; un amore che si accontenta di un nastro smarrito, di uno sguardo perduto, di una parola sfuggita?

Avete mai provato per qualcuno una di quelle irresistibili simpatie che fanno sì che vedendo una persona per la prima volta, credete di conoscerlo da lungo tempo, e vi domandate dove è quando l'abbiate vista, cosicché, non potendo ricordarvi né il luogo né il tempo finite con il credere che sia stato in un mondo anteriore al nostri, e che questa simpatia sia un ricordo che si risvegli?

Mais vous ne m'avez jamais dit non plus que vous ne m'aimez point; et vraiment, me dire de semblables paroles, ce serait de la part de Votre Majesté une trop grande ingratitude. Car, dites-moi, où trouverez-vous un amour pareil au mien, um amour que ni le temps, ni l'absence, ni le désepoir ne peuvent enteindre; un amour que se contente d'un ruban égaré, d'un regard perdu, d'une parole échappée?

It has been truly said, that a woman who has truly loved is always young, and that the bloom of the girl of twenty years ever lies concealed in some secret cloister of the heart. 1

Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure.

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty— they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. MARTIN BUXBAUM

Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.

He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.

Put us in a jar, she thought. Put us in eternity.

The contents of the unconscious remain unchanged and timeless. It is only as these contents become conscious that change can begin.

Nothing changes really about love.

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me.-

What prophecy actually is is not that you actually know that the bomb will fall in 1942. It's that you know and feel something that somebody knows and feels in a hundred years. And maybe articulate it in a hint—a concrete way that they can pick up on in a hundred years.

Significant timeless reflex in sepulchre: apparitions of immortality consumed inward, waiting openmouthed in the fireless darkness.