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Quotes About Permanence

We stayed here for only a few hours. We rested and went on. But the camera snatched this fraction of a second from the eternal flow of time and froze it forever. At this moment we didn't know that in a few hours we would fall into an ambush. At this moment, while we were filling our canteens from the stream, we didn't yet know that we would stay in the mountains for three days without a drop of water. We didn't yet know anything …
~ Unknown
They shall be remembered forever, They shall be alive forever, They shall be speaking forever, The people shall hear them forever.
~ W.B. Yeats
Life is fleeting and full of sorrow and no words can prevent the brave and the beautiful from dying or annihilate a grief. What poetry can do is transform the real world into an imaginary one which is godlike in its permanence and beauty, providing a picture of life which is worthy of imitation as far as it is possible.
~ W.H. Auden
Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever.
~ Eric Schmidt
I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.
~ Buzz Aldrin
I am immortal! I know it! I feel it!
~ Unknown
Dad's especially need to remember that what they say to their daughters is written in Sharpie. It can't be erased.
~ Sue Enquist
The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.
~ Enzo Ferrari
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
~ William Styron
There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
~ Emily Bronte
The only way to kill death is through photography.
~ Jean Cocteau
Things have a terrible permanence when people die.
~ Joyce Kilmer
The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.
~ Zadie Smith
Does fashion matter? Always - though not quite as much after death.
~ Joan Rivers
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
~ Cornel West
When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Death is usually an all-or-nothing thing!
~ Dan Brown
Death is very, very terminal.
~ David Lange
Death is just infinity closing in.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
~ Unknown
It was going to be like this forever and ever, Wally knew. Unless the Bensons came back at the end of the year, the Malloys would probably stay in Buckman, and Wally would have to listen to his brothers talk about them for the rest of this life.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Qué es lo que es siempre y no deviene y qué, lo que deviene continuamente, pero nunca es?
~ Platon
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
~ Plato