Continuity Of Being Quotes

“It is as if the stuff of which we are made were totally transparent and therefore imperceptible and as if the only appearances of which we can be aware are cracks and planes of fracture in that transparent matrix. Dreams and percepts and stories are perhaps cracks and irregularities in the uniform and timeless matrix. Was this what Plotinus meant by an 'invisible and unchanging beauty which pervades all things'?”
― Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity

“If I die, don't take this too hard," she counseled them, "death is only part of things bigger than we can imagine. Our brains are just starting the greatness, to learn how to do things like flying. What next? You will see, and you will see that your mother is of the design. And I will always be made of things, and things will always be made of me. Nothing can get rid of me because I am already included into the pattern.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Master Butchers Singing Club

“Isn't it ironic that being immortal would reveal the fool's errand of immortality?”
― RyLee Harrison

“They kept catching colds with great regularity. For the regularity of his life a little death, too. Its name was continuity.”
― Tristan Tzara, The Gas Heart: The Dada Anti-Masterpiece of Drama

“What I want to emphasize is that death does not affect the continuity of existence, since in existence itself all separate existences originate; continuity of existence is independent of death and is even proved by death.”
― Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality