Quotes About Endures

Feelings pass like clouds but love endures like the sky.

Good night; ensured release,Imperishable peace,Have these for yours.While sky and sea and landAnd earth's foundations standAnd heaven endures.

Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.

The traditions evolve. Men's faith varies. God endures.

Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.

In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.

In poetry, only emotion endures.

We cannot reinvent our fundamental institutions without going against the created order. Some Christians are bending God's rules to satisfy self. As the fads and trends around us come and go, one person endures: Jesus Christ. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. (Heb. 13:8) He is exalted in the heavens, and the earth is His footstool. from: I Never Thought I'd See the Day

I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.

I had learned a fundamental truth about killing: The victim's anguish is brief and fleeting, but the murderer's endures forever.

We're the only ones who know what death is all about. And the earth itself. Just let somebody try to muscle in on our work, and the earth will swallow him up like that, believe me. The earth is kind to us gravediggers. It doesn't complain, it lets itself be worked over. It accepts what we give it. It endures the assassin's arrogance and the victim's tears. It's open to everybody at any moment; the great conqueror is the earth, for it is the earth that raises the dead and feeds the living.

To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore, give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast...and one day you will build something that endures: something worthy of your potential.

It makes no difference what men think of war…. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting the ultimate practitioner. —Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures, or strives to endure.

Praise the LORD of hosts, for the Lord is good, for His mercy endures forever. – Jeremiah 33:11

Aphrodite, Aphrodite--I am sick of hearing poets sing her praise. "Violet-crowned, the golden, laughter-loving one..." How she sets their hearts a-twitter! And they call her "Queen of Love"--what folly. If love is like a firefly that flits about and quickly fades, then let her be its queen. If love is sacred, and endures, then it is my domain.

Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achieve­ments. These alone count in life.

For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. Psalm 100:5

It was a question above all of personal and national honour, because the important thing was that Greece should come through this trial without the slightest imputation of turpitude. When soldiers are dead, when a country is devastated and destroyed, it is honour that survives and endures. It is honour that breathes life into the corpse when evil times have passed.

The hollowness in his chest, the tense yearning, the loneliness he braces against, every morning until he can immerse himself in work and forget. Not love. Something else, something with a power that endures. Not love, but a memory of love.

As long as on the earth endures his life To deal with him have full and free permission; Man's hour on earth is weakness, error, strife.

Only some rubbish about furniture. Helen says it alone endures while men and houses perish, and that in the end the world will be a desert of chairs and sofas — just imagine it! — rolling through infinity with no one to sit upon them.

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.