Quotes About Timelessness

#1. The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.

Hermann Hesse

#2. I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.

John Travolta

#3. On the edge of timelessness, hand in hand with you, a sea of flowers caressed.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#4. I think timelessness is a very important factor in whatever I do. That's what makes a classic.

Patricia Field

#5. And so the pact of timelessness between us was broken and I went from him into the darkening tunnel of the years.

Farley Mowat

#6. I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.

M.F.K. Fisher

#7. But the longer and further I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind- a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus.

Scott Jurek

#8. There's time for laughing and there's time for crying
for hoping for despair for peace for longing
- a time for growing and a time for dying:
a night for silence and a day for singing
but more than all(as all your more than eyes
tell me)there is a time for timelessness

E. E. Cummings

#9. The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.

Lewis Mumford

#10. Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Frank Gehry

#11. The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.

Ella Maillart

#12. But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

Dwight Yoakam

#13. Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

Kahlil Gibran

#14. I would like to submit an entirely different agenda, one that is built on love, cherishing and timelessness. One that acknowledges that in living, we accumulate. We admire. We desire. We love. We collect. We display.

Dominique Browning

#15. I entered what I can only describe as an alternate universe, and experienced timelessness for myself, first-hand. There was no refuting the immortality of the soul for me ever again after that.

Susan Schneider

#16. My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

Brandi Carlile

#17. Timelessness is realizing that everything that has ever or will ever happen already exists simultaneously in another reality or dimension.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#18. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#19. Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.

Ezra Taft Benson

#20. The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

C.S. Lewis

#21. My late twenties had passed in a weird state of timelessness, and I think now that not everyone could have fallen into a life like that, that I must have been somehow primed for it.

Zadie Smith

#22. Despite what you've been conditioned to believe, sexual desire is sacred and virtuous. When you and your beloved merge physically and emotionally, you go beyond the boundaries of the ego and experience timelessness, naturalness, playfulness and defenselessness .

Deepak Chopra

#23. Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.

Gerald Durrell

#24. Nature is the discipline on which all intelligence is based. Why ever would its understanding, a two-fold dynamic, be based not on reactionary actions, but on the conjuring of time-timelessness and non-reactionary backward spans?

Dew Platt

#25. Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

King Hussein I

#26. Eternity is not a super-abundance of time, but timelessness.

Vijay Balakrishnan

#27. Eye , gazelle, delicate wanderer, Drinker of horizon's fluid line; Ear that suspends on a chord The spirit drinking timelessness; Touch, love, all senses ...

Stephen Spender

#28. Fashion is a function of lifestyle, and style a function of quality, integrity and timelessness.

Ralph Lauren

#29. I'm interested in longevity, timelessness, style - not fashion.

Ralph Lauren

#30. There is time, and then there is timelessness. And if you're lucky, and if you can be still enough, observant enough, you may be able to know and speak about that intersection of time and timelessness, or time and eternity.

Wendell Berry

#31. The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.

Ram Dass

#32. While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today are of course uniquely qualified to comment on their own time.

Michael Hersch

#33. The universe may be timeless, but if you imagine breaking it into pieces, some of the pieces can serve as clocks for the others. Time emerges from timelessness. We perceive time because we are, by our very nature, one of those pieces.

Craig Callender

#34. A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing ...

Lois Wyse

#35. Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

Thomas Mann

#36. The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Kahlil Gibran

#37. I consider every one of the Disney films that Bob & I worked on, to have been the luckiest break any two songwriters could have ever had. They all aimed at quality and timelessness. That's why they live over the years.

Richard Sherman

#38. How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?

Antony Gormley

#39. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#40. For me, style is about quality, integrity and timelessness. It is free of trends but always feels fresh and new.

Ralph Lauren

#41. The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means ... Its effectiveness depends on distinctiveness, visibility, adaptability, memorability, universality, and timelessness.

Paul Rand

#42. 'SNL' is this part of American culture with a certain timelessness to it.

Thomas Bangalter

#43. Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#44. Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.

Fran Lebowitz

#45. There was a magical timelessness to Capri A special atmosphere, and a sense of history.

Kitty Pilgrim

#46. Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness.

Jan Morris

#47. Time means succession, and succession, change: Hence timelessness is bound to disarrange Schedules of sentiment.

Vladimir Nabokov

#48. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.

Elif Shafak

#49. Even though I believe a superlative translation can achieve timelessness, that doesn't mean I think other translators shouldn't attempt other versions. The more the better, in the end.

Lydia Davis

#50. I don't even like cemeteries. Morgues, either, nor anatomy museums, undertakers' parlors, funeral chapels, or any of those places where the world of the living sparks against the world of the dead, and a spot of burned out time fades, diffuse in an ocean of timelessness.

Elizaveta Mikhailichenko

#51. The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings.

Ruth Bernhard

#52. You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory - the appearance is fashion, the appearance is trendiness - but the essence is timeless.

Massimo Vignelli

#53. If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#54. I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court.

Maria Sharapova

#55. Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#56. The man was a mystery to Jim. Sometimes, he seemed to be the perfect Southern gentleman from days long gone. At other times, he had an air of timelessness, that of someone who had seen and experienced much.

Philip C. Elrod

#57. The fact that a thirteen-year-old project still resonates and can still have a large exhibit with lots of newspaper, magazine and TV press shows the timelessness of the project.

Peter Menzel

#58. Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness.

Frederick Lenz

#59. What was it called, that symbol of the serpent eating its own tail? It probably signified infinity, endlessness, timelessness. But for me it would mean the effort to love well going on and on, round and round, always imperfect and always forgivable. The best we could ever do for each other.

Patricia Gaffney

#60. Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness
that place where one is whole.

Paula Gunn Allen

#61. Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.

David Whyte

#62. One thing that got me started on it was the jean jacket. It's an item that could make you believe you're in the 50s or punk-rock 70s or grunge 90s. I was really focused on timelessness, and I think music is very timeless.

Drew Barrymore

#63. There is an
underlying timelessness
in the basic conversation
that is mathematics.

Barry Mazur

#64. In a nation whose great informing myth is that it has no great informing myth, familiarity equaled timelessness

David Foster Wallace

#65. Death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.

John Shelby Spong

#66. Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

John Lennon

#67. Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes

Harold Bloom

#68. . . .in your light, had I learned to love, here
in your beauty, could I speak
knowing of this space close within
as the breath held inside a garden rose, there -
there is no time.

John Daniel Thieme

#69. The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless.

A.E. Samaan

#70. Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#71. Time was unending when charmed, captivated, even delighted by the mystical motion of the ocean!

Ray Palla

#72. Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

W.P. Kinsella

#73. So I find words I never thought to speak
In streets I never thought I should revisit
When I left my body on a distant shore.

T. S. Eliot

#74. Some only learn the value of time when it's too late!

Stephen Richards

#75. 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.

Nancy Young

#76. TIME: Today Is My Everything

Richie Norton

#77. Your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited.

Hermann Hesse

#78. 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.

Janet Turpin Myers

#79. Mythic imagination can break the spell of time and open us to a level of life that remains timeless. Myth is not about what happened in past times; myth is about what happens to people all of the time.

Michael Meade

#80. Time is priceless gift.
Time defined moments.
Time lost can not be redefined.
May you find the value of time as your greatest wealth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#81. Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

Julia Cameron

#82. All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

C.S. Lewis

#83. 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.

Alesandro Bariko

#84. That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once.
They are the meaning.

Lauren Oliver

#85. What surfaced was the surprising power of our cultural heritage.

Patrick Hennessey

#86. In space there are no seasons, and this is as true of the ships that cross the distances between humanity's far-flung homes. But we measure our seasons anyway: by a smile, a silence, a song.

Yoon Ha Lee

#87. A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom.

Antonin Scalia

#88. That which is timeless is also the most timely.

Joseph Pearce

#89. 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