Quotes about Continuity

Je mehr sich die Dinge ändern, desto mehr bleibt alles beim alten.

Those into whose lives you are born do not pass away.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green over a heart in ruins.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is already fulfilling it to-day.

The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.

This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.

She never knew where he was, in what city or on what continent, the day after she had seen him. He always came to her unexpectedly—and she liked it, because it made him a continuous presence in her life, like the ray of a hidden light that could hit her at any moment.

Faulkner reminds us, the past is never dead and buried - it is not even past.

Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

Apart from the before, the now has little meaning. The now is only a thin slice of who I am; isolated from the rich deposits of before, it cannot be understood.