Quotes About Permanence

The world would always know, even if men forgot.

Words will never oxidize

Nothing will change, Alexias. No, that is false; there is change whenever there is life, and already we are not the two who met in Taureas' palaestra. But what kind of fool would plant an apple-slip, to cut it down at the season when the fruit is setting? Flowers you can get every year, but only with time the tree that shades your doorway and grows into the house with each year's sun and rain.

The energy of our every thought, action, or word, once it has been projected, lasts eternally without disappearing.

reflexione, una vez más, sobre aquella vieja idea de los efectos del tiempo, ese tiempo inexorable que a nosotros nos destruye y que a las obras de arte las vuelve infinitamente más hermosas.

That was the familiar lesson of time. Everything changes and nothing changes.

Because in one universe you have always been there. The book will never be returned, so to speak. It becomes less of a loan and more of a gift.

I want to make a forest of a moment and live in that forest for ever

That was the familiar lesson of time. Everything changes and nothing changes. (There is a tree in California, a Great Basin bristlecone pine that was found, after an intensive ring count, to be five thousand and sixty-five years old.)

Everything changes and nothing changes.

And every moment lasts for ever. It lives on. Somewhere. Somehow.

you will be preserved from death.

You can live that life as if you've always been there and the book will never be returned." - Mrs. Elm

If all memories decay, what of them will really ever be left? What is it that's growing from out of the rotting material of old memories? Is every moment of the past simply gone forever? Why can't they be held intact somehow?

The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.

We become used to thinking that all of this exists necessarily and unshakeably.

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

There was a sense of permanence about Egypt; the past was never far from the present.

Vrijeme nije samo proticanje, ve? i prisustvo. Vidljivi trag ne?ije ruke što je davno zapisala neravne redove, prkosi smrti, a rije?i i njihov smisao žive neprekidno, kao izvor koji ne presušuje, kao svjetlo koje se ne gasi.

The emperor, as the story went, received as a gift some wondrous glass dishes. He liked the gifts very much, but smashed them all nonetheless. "Why? Are they not beautiful?" he was asked. "Precisely because of that," he answered. "They are so beautiful that it would be hard for me to lose them. And with time they would break, one by one. And I would be sorrier than I am now.

To commit to actual things composed of wood and metal and fabric was to make real the vagueness and unreality of love.

When you get away with something it's yours only, forever. Heavy and irremediable.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It's those that bring us grief that linger.

Some things change. And some things don't.