Timelessness Quotes
43 quotes
"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
"So I find words I never thought to speakIn streets I never thought I should revisitWhen I left my body on a distant shore."
"Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise?Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means.And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. is before you.True wisdom then steps in, to interpret, illuminate, and form a life-altering insight."
"The river is now. This moment. This breath between us. The space between your heartbeats. The moment before you blink. The instant a thought flashes through your mind. It is everything that is around us. Life. Energy. Flowing, endlessly flowing, carrying you from then...to now...to tomorrow. Listen: you can hear the music of it. Of the passage of time."
"That which is timeless is also the most timely."
"Stone is a primal matter, inhuman in its duration. Yet despite its incalculable temporality, the lithic is not some vast and alien outside. A limit-breaching intimacy persistently unfolds. Hurl a rock and you'll shatter an ontology, leave taxonomy in glistening shards."
"...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited."
"Beauty is the moment when time vanishes and eternity arises."
"Night after night on starry wingsNight lovers soared so highMiles apart, across the oceansTheir love forgot to sighIn heavenly flight’s timelessnessThat highest height treasuredInto the deepest of all bluesTheir depth of love measured.From the poem 'The Ballad of Night Lovers"
"How shallow is the stage on which this vast drama of human hates and joys and friendships is played! Whence do men draw this passion for eternity, flung by chance as they are upon a scarcely cooled bed of lava, threatened by the beginning by the deserts that are to be, under the constant menace of the snows? Their civilizations are but fragile gildings: a volcano can blot them out, a new sea, a sand-storm."
"Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise?Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means.And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in plati"
"Beauty is the moment when time vanishes. Beauty is the space where eternity arises."
"Meditation is spending time with the self. It is the time to be intimated with the soul."
Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
"The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless."
"Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes"
Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
"A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom."
Antonin Scalia, Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice
"There are many ties that bind, and as many walls that divide. Music and madness. Love and unending time. Race and war. Strum weaves together each element into a larger human tapestry of light and shadow, where a combination of fate and decision can define a family's legacy."
"That moment when my heart stops, almost as if, it never existed..When every breath, slows down, almost as if, I never needed a single breath of air..When time stops, almost as if, seconds never mattered..In that moment, I am infinite..In that moment, I am immortal..In that moment, I am, finally, alive.."
"If the race isn't over after you have won, then it wasn't your game!"
"Timelessness is realizing that everything that has ever or will ever happen already exists simultaneously in another reality or dimension."
Russell Anthony Gibbs, The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life
"As researchers of the paranormal, we must understand there are ways to change the rhythm of time within us, ways to change the beat. These ways have been known since the beginnings of civilization, and possibly much earlier. And these ways would require no more effort than simply recognizing the secret rhythms of things. Moreover, we may learn to beat with them and begin to perceive a different kind of space, and ultimately discover an altogether different conception of reality…"
"I never even heard her voice."And after a while:"It is a strange grief."Softly:"To die of nostalgia for something you never lived."
"Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless."
"What we are at this very moment is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this moment. And the step that you take at this moment, will determine your future. Past and future both require a functional mind to exist. Only the present prevails independent of mind – independent of life."
Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
"What surfaced was the surprising power of our cultural heritage."
Patrick Hennessey, The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars
". . .in your light, had I learned to love, here in your beauty, could I speakknowing of this space close withinas the breath held inside a garden rose, there— there is no time."
"In order to understand the conditions we are in, we must place ourselves not in the mainstream of life but in the timeless stream of myth. As the fabric of life loosens, the veil between this world of hard facts and the otherworld of great imagination also becomes thinner and more permeable. Just as time seems to be running out, timeless things try to slip back into human awareness."
"His mind turned, gradually comprehending, memories flooding his awareness that were not his own: memories from the timelessness before the Being within him had fallen into this body; of a Homeworld and a Consortium of Light that had sent two Beings away to prove themselves worthy—of one another and of their place in their own world."
"Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me."
"That moment when this heart.. stops.. almost as if it never existed.When every.. breathe.. slows down.. almost as if you never ... needed as single breathe of airWhen time stops.. almost as if every second never mattered.In that moment... I'm infinite.In that moment... I am immortal.In that moment... I am Finally alive."
"Never Waste Your Time, Otherwise one day Time Will Waste or Spoil You."
"Some only learn the value of time when it’s too late!"
"I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and future all at once."
Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
"Ecstatic technology isn't limited to silicon chips and display screens. As John Lilly's early research established, it's the knowledge of how to tweak the knobs and levers in our brain. When we get it right, it produces those invaluable sensations of selflessness, timelessness, effortlessness, and richness."
"Timeless wisdom brings timeless blessings."
"I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman."
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
"Time was unending when charmed, captivated, even delighted by the mystical motion of the ocean!"
"This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time."
"If I had a wish it would be this: that Google maps could take me, not to just anywhere on the planet, but to anywhere in time."
"Time is priceless gift.Time defined moments.Time lost can not be redefined.May you find the value of time as your greatest wealth."
"He put this engine [a silver pocket watch] into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water-mill: and we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion, because he assured us, (if we understood him right, for he expressed himself very imperfectly) that he seldom did any thing without consulting it. He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life."
"TIME: Today Is My Everything"