Quotes About Permanence

When you're young, you do think that things last forever

It was impossible to believe that Alan was lying in that pale, plain pine box merely from having caught a summertime disease. That box from which you cannot force your way out. That box in which a twelve-year-old was twelve years old forever. The rest of us live and grow older by the day, but he remains twelve. Millions of years go by, and he is still twelve.

Nothing lasts, and yet nothing passes, either. And nothing passes just because nothing lasts.

Emotions, when they're revved up, don't change, they're the same, fresh and raw. Everything passes? Nothing passes. The same emotions are here!

Niente dura, e nondimeno niente passa. E niente passa proprio perché niente dura.

He had watched her, after all, mourn her husband's death and it had been for her in part the discovery that grief could attach itself with permanence - something Ishmael had already discovered. It attached itself and then it burrowed inside and made a nest and stayed. It ate whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it.

Are you two inseparable now? I asked you. You laughed. Don't you know, Evan? People are always separable. I wanted to say I had once thought the two of us were inseparable. But that would have only proven your point.

I have always thought of the body as something that is written from the inside. I don't need Rhiannon's name on my skin, because it is already indelible in my thoughts.

Pasaban los años,y la única persona que no cambiaba era la joven de su libro

She fears the destination. Be objective! What is the fear? It it something to do with death and time and age. Simply: I am eighteen in my mind I am eighteen and if I do nothing if I stand still nothing will change I will be eighteen always. For always. Time will stop. I'll never die.

Neither my readers nor I are in the relatively sunlit uplands depicted in White Teeth anymore. But the lesson I take from this is not that the lives in that novel were illusory, but rather that progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and *reimagined* if it is to survive.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Nothing more clearly proves the necessity for indissoluble marriage than the instability of passion.

and so convinced are we that each mood while it lasts will be the permanent temper of our soul

Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

I shall not wholly die.

That was what was cruel about superficial change: it exposed what could never change.

I have become a gate To the ruined city, dry, / Indestructible by fire.

Today I fell to the ground at the pull of memory. There quite seemed a permanence to my defeat. And here I thought, in their profound tug-of-war, present and future would, by sheer shouldering force of will and superior numbers, win out over the past. How wrong I was. —Marghanita Laski

Love is the only permanent relationship among men, and the permanence is not an accident of it, but is of its very essence.

Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible without time limitations, and the consideration of whether you may or may not be around to see the results should never enter your thoughts.

And the names drew about themselves a nimbus of quality, of good and bad and color and weight and hardness, a state of existence to come, a state of existence that was and a state of existence that had been.

That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.

Nosotros y todas nuestras existencias son no-entidades. Tú eres el ser absoluto cuya apariencia es transitoria.