One must always maintain one's connection to the past and…

Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change.

— Óscar Arias

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires…

— Gaston Bachelard

I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to…

— August Wilson

In short, chronological connectivity puts us in touch with the holy. It is at once humbling and exhilarating. I say this as someone who…

— James Howard Kunstler

As little boys, my brother and I used to spend hours with my grandmother, asking her about the details of how she came to…

— Bryce Dessner

“Grandmamma had been the last connection to our past. I had understood her as some referent moral authority to whom we paid no heed,…

— E.L. Doctorow

“I believe that every contact between people makes them part of society. And that goes beyond the present moment. Things happen as a result…

— Michiko Aoyama

Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which…

— Simone Weil

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

— Richard Schickel

“She wished the days and months ahead of her would end. But the rest of her life continued to present itself, time ceaselessly proliferating.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.

— Andrew Davidson

“Each blade of grass, each little bug, ant, golden bee, knows its way amazingly; being without reason, they witness to the divine mystery, they…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.

— Charles Reznikoff

Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly

— Confucius

“Each instant was different and new and unrepeatable. That was the very nature of time, ceaselessly realizing itself, in every life.”

— César Aira