Quotes About Permanence

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don't understand you at all stick around.

The thing about growing old is that when you wake up with a new pain, you can just about count on it becoming a permanent part of your life!

If you look out at nature, you find that as you tend to see suspended animation, you tend to see immortality.

A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

You're basically the same person forever so you find the same stuff funny forever. The Muppet Show spoke to me at 5 and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.

The other day, I got a henna tattoo that says "Forever."

Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead.

I am who I am and I am who I was, and I am who I will always be!

The same yesterday, today, and forever.

If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Tomorrow is our permanent address.

Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.