“The world keeps on changing, but there is always something, somewhere, that remains the same.”
Ruskin Bond (1934) British Indian writer
Orion (1843), Book iii, Canto ii. Compare: "'T is always morning somewhere", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Wayside Inn. Birds of Killingworth, stanza 16.
“The world keeps on changing, but there is always something, somewhere, that remains the same.”
Ruskin Bond (1934) British Indian writer
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
“There's always something that's smoldering somewhere”
Elvis Costello (1954) English singer-songwriter
The Other End (of the Telescope), written by Elvis Costello and Aimee Mann
Song lyrics, All This Useless Beauty (1996)
Context: There's always something that's smoldering somewhere
I know it don't make a difference to you
But oh! It sure made a difference to me
You'll see me off in the distance, I hope
At the other end
At the other end of the telescope.
Jay Nordlinger (1963) American journalist
Twitter post https://twitter.com/jaynordlinger/status/1037178490376863744 (4 September 2018) <br class="br">2010s
“It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Rooming House Madrigals (1954)
“Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.”
Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men (2005)
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Source: All Men are Mortal (1946), p. 201
Context: What did today's sacrifices matter: the Universe lay ahead in the future. What did burnings at the stake and massacres matter? The Universe was somewhere else, always somewhere else! And it isn't anywhere: there are only men, men eternally divided.