Quotes About Permanence

The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we're chained to our bodies, which are chained to Time.

Ein Bild, das bleibt immer so, wie es ist und nur soweit das Bild reicht, bliebt alles so, wie es ist.

For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

L'inglese rimane il presente: permanente, indelebile. la matrigna non mi abbandona. Per quanto sia una lingua imposta, mi ha regalato una voce pulita, corretta, per sempre.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

I think that Walter De Maria's Lightning Field, Michael Heizer's City, and Charles Ross's work in Star Axis New Mexico , all three will last for a millennium.

Home is not a place. Home is security, predictability, reliability, dependability, safety, permanence combined together.

Beauty fades, stupid is forever.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

True love is the most enduring of all of life's worldly possessions, never tarnishing over time, but ever to remain bright and brilliant in the light of love.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalise so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth - that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every set-back insuperable?

It'll all be one in a thousand years.

an action can last for a while, but a spoken, word last forever.

Because dying lasts forever until it stops.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.

Beauty fades. Your spirit is forever.

A thing of beauty is a job forever.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.