Timelessness Quotes - Page 2

• a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos.

  Tom Wolfe

  Past, Doors, Feelings

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.163, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• ...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.

  John Shelby Spong

  Journey, Dimensions

  John Shelby Spong (2009). “Eternal Life: A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

  Anais Nin

  Progress, Compass, Encyclopedia

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• 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

  Fashion, Appreciate, Design

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• 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

  Karma, Mind, Moments

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• The timelessness is completely important. It's partly about removing things that would become in some way nostalgic. There aren't really any markers of time, like furniture or a particular style of shoe that denote a particular period or place. I think that's why I like the outdoors, because it removes a sense of time and I want the painting to feel timeless, because it increases that sense of omnipotence.

  Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

  Thinking, Style, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die — to give of ourselves wholly to the demands of the moment, so that we utterly "disappear." Thoughts of past, present, or future, of life and death, of this world and the next, are transcended in the superabundance of the now. Time and timelessness coalesce: this is the moment of eternity.

  Philip Kapleau

  Past, Life And Death, Giving

  "The Zen of Living and Dying: A Practical and Spiritual Guide".

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• 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

  Children, Dark, Night

  Gerald Durrell, Lee Durrell (1996). “The best of Gerald Durrell”, Harpercollins

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Body

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• 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

  Time, Pieces, May

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• 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 Safak

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Design, Durability, Language

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• The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Past, Air, Bird

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• 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

  Differences, Infinite, Away From You

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

  Anais Nin

  Ocean, Eye, Order

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• Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.100, Lulu.com

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

  Fran Lebowitz

  Artist, Quality, Telling The Truth

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• 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

  Inspirational, Beauty, Running

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Fall, Autumn, Winter

  Andrew Wyeth, Greenville County Museum of Art (1979). “Works”

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• And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.

  Khalil Gibran

  Stars, Dwelling, Space

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• For time not only moves inexorable forward, as the underlying grid to our personal chronicle, but is manipulated by our psychic needs and natures into various images of timelessness and timeliness. Transient moments suddenly expand, visions of infinity intervene, notes and phrases become outlets of fantasy, escape, recollection, or omen. The music travels on two planes, chronological time and psychological time. Both planes are essential and must be abundantly represented.

  Russell Sherman

  Moving, Psychics, Two

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• I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Dream, Loneliness, Fall

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, Events, Duration

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.190, Routledge

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• While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today can comment on today in an exclusive manner.

  Michael Hersch

  Art, Believe, Writing

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Becoming, Transformation

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