Quotes About Permanence

This is serious: some of the things that are supposed to last the rest of my life are already wearing out.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

The only thing constant in life is change.

Nothing lasts for ever but the Earth and sky.

The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.

It was now so much a part of him, that it could not have been torn from him without destroying him almost entirely: as they say in surgery, his love was no longer operable.

It's no more obsolete than the Iliad. I may

Our love of life is only an old connexion of which we do not know how to rid ourself. Its strength lies in its permanence. But death which severs it will cure us of the desire for immortality.

Our love of life is no more than an old affair that we do not know how to discontinue. Its strength lies in its permanence. But death, which interrupts it, will cure us of our desire for immortality.

Time has a way of evening things out, the simple ways endure, and the fancy pants with his smart new way falls by the roadside. The best way to tell how long a thing will last is ask how long it's been around for. The newest things end soonest. And things that have been around for a good long while will last awhile to come.

I could almost disappear and the world would go on, a never-ending sentence without a pause.

Ma ancora una volta si ripete che l'unico passato reale è quello che perdura nella memoria e che l'unica perdurabile memoria è la scrittura. [...] Forse la letteratura, forse la mia letteratura, rettifica, non svolge altra missione che quella di perfezionare il passato affinché l'avvenire si riprometta di non essere da meno (196).

Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.

That was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.

If grief had a permanence, then didn't also love?

Happiness is sometimes an illusion. Real happiness lasts more than a moment...

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Si noe som er innlysende,si det for første gang, og du blir udødelig (Norwegian)

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts longer.

Love- The most powerful thing anyone will ever experience in life. Also the most difficult, confusing and deceiving! In the end is doesn't even matter because nothing ever lasts forever. You are the truest person you have in life the only one that knows yourself and everything about you. Who's going to be there when everyone else is not?

A picture doesn't bring someone to life. A picture is a death of the moment when the picture is taken. Whenever you look at a picture, time dies again.