Quotes About Permanence

Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow – beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

love was an unstable reaction with a half-life of about eight months. Bullshit, I said, and accused him of wearing cultural blinders; thirty centuries of prewar society taught that love was one thing that could last to the grave and even beyond

Yes, tings endure while the living lapse

I am amazed at how little has changed in the more than fifty years that have gone by since I was last here. Amazed, and disappointed, I would go so far as to say appalled, for reasons that are obscure to me, since why should I desire change, I who have come back to live amidst the rubble of the past?

What are living beings, compared to the enduring intensity of mere things?

Lord, in the beginning you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. Even they will perish, but you remain forever. They will wear out like old clothing. You will roll them up like an old coat. They will fade away like old clothing. But you are always the same; you will never grow old. (Hebrews 1:10–12 NLT)

Le hizo comprender que era posible que el tiempo siguiera su curso, pero que las ideas de algunas personas quedarían enquistadas para siempre.

This deficiency would be scorched into our future like an ill-considered tattoo.

The suggestion, however, regarding my age – that I am perhaps not quite fifty years old – would flatter me immensely. For it is many years now since I have been able to say in all honesty that I have only seen half a century. This is simply the age, or at least the visual representation of an age, at which I have been stuck for a large proportion of my 256 years of life. I am an old man.

Todo esto, por supuesto, pasó hace mucho, mucho tiempo, y nunca podría volver a pasar nada parecido. Hoy en día, no.

the glory of the next world that will never wear out, while the good things of this world will vanish.

It is the glory of the next world that will never wear out, while the good things of this world will vanish.

Thus she abides; her Towers forever rising, forever vanishing. Never or Always.

I don't think I'm that good at telling time. He said he'd love me forever, and I thought forever was a lot longer.

Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours...never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren plac

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes; even if the poeple in it do.

You may have some friends that come and go, but having a friend like God will last forever.

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

I'd love to live forever except the person that made this game board has a tendency to occasionally knock some pieces off

Dante: Evergreens aren't supposed to die

Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarna

Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

Only the rocks live forever, Gray Wolf said.