Quotes About Permanence

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.

Hannah's house has been unfinished ever since I can remember. Deep down I think that's always been a comfort to me, because people don't leave unfinished houses.

After all, Leonie knew better than most that there were some situations that just couldn't be fixed, and some actions that couldn't be undone.

Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek: We write in sand, our language grows And like the tide, our work o'erflows.

death was permanent, and should be avoided if possible.

Omnia Mutantur...

Christ is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. We face no new dangers. They are merely variations on ancient themes.

Immortality

A book is more durable than a man.

Things weren't permanent, things could always fall apart, never get too comfortable, and even those you trust, those you trust as authority figures and role models, are liable to show themselves as illusions.

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

The king of Siam once asked his wise men for a proverb that would be appropriate for any occasion. They suggested "This, too, shall pass". Well, in biochemistry an equally appropriate saying for all occasions is "Things are more complicated than they seem".

according to Sri Ramana, something can be called real only if it satisfies three essential criteria: it must be eternal, unchanging and self-shining.

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. —Irving Townshend, Separate Lives

as the permanent solution to a temporary problem).

silver coins had gone from being a convenient way to carry a valuable metal to a symbol in their own right. Coins were value you could carry about, which other people recognized the same way you did. They didn't need to be sheltered and fed like cattle, or ploughed and reaped like fields, and best of all they didn't die; their value persisted. They could be buried in times of trouble and dug up to spend later.

When I write things down, I own them. They're no longer hanging in mid-air like cartoon bubbles or wisps of smoke. They're made real. Solid. Conversation doesn't last. Spoken words fade. We stop listening. Forget.

Nothing—Elder, Next Generation, immortal or human—was completely indestructible. Not even Areop-Enap. Perenelle herself had once brought an ancient temple down on the spider's head and it had shrugged off the attack—yet could it survive billions of poisonous flies?

First, nothing is as permanent as a temporary fix. Most of these remained in place for the next year or two.

Even more, they cannot play this role in front of another being. And yet they ought to be able to do so: for this dissolution of being is a tragic dissolution; and we all continue, moved by a painful nostalgia, to ask the other for what we ourselves can no longer be; to seek, like a blinded phantom, this weight of being that we no longer find within ourselves. This resistance, this permanence; this depth. Of course, everyone fails, and the loneliness is excruciating.

Je ne crois pas une demi-seconde aux déclarations du genre rien ne sera plus jamais comme avant. Au contraire, tout restera exactement pareil... Il serait tout aussi faux d'affirmer que nous avons redécouvert le tragique, la mort, la finitude, etc..

S?cak yaz günlerimi üst üste s?ralanm?? dallar?nda rüzgar?n ninnisini dinleyerek geçirdiÄŸim iki ulu köknar?n ortadan yok oluÅŸu dikkatimi çekiyor. Onlar da ha! Oysa ben onlar? kal?c?, y?k?lmaz san?rd?m.- O, ErmiÅŸler Bayram? Mantar?.

I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same.

To say that everything is idea or that everything is spirit, is the same as saying that everything is matter or that everything is energy, for if everything is idea or spirit, just as my consciousness is, it is not plain why the diamond should not endure for ever, if my consciousness, because it is idea or spirit, endures forever.