Quotes About Permanence

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

If you do it right, it will last forever.

It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

...there is no everyday activity which does not aspire to be photographed, filmed or videotaped. For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

All men desire to be immortal.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

I don't believe you can say 'forever'; I don't believe it exists.

Love lasts forever.

Art is longer than life.

I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.

Words have a longevity that I do not have.

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

It doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story. They come and go, and when they go, they're gone for good.

We saw a cloudwall hung many miles to the east and hawks floating in the unforced motion that makes you think they've been up there, the same two birds since bible times.

Maybe there is no death as we know it. Just documents changing hands.

A picture that will never leave me. I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.

How could the apartment have seemed so permanent and solid-looking when it was only a stage set, waiting to be struck and carried away by movers in uniform?

Because--the line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn't matter if it's been through the Xerox machine a hundred times ... Still with greatness, there's a jolt at the end of the wire. It doesn't matter how often you grab hold of the line, or how many people have grabbed hold of it before you. It's the same line. Fallen from a higher life. It still carries some of the same shock.

La línea de la belleza no cambia por mucho que haya pasado cientos de veces por una fotocopiadora.

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.

But one thing is sure -I had a feeling of immense content and, if I thought at all, it was that I'd like this to go on, no-one going, no-one coming, autumn and winter always loitering around the corner, summer's ripeness lasting for ever, nothing disturbing the even tenor of my way (as I think someone may have said before me).