Quotes About Permanence

E de novo acredito que nada do que é importante se perde verdadeiramente. Apenas nos iludimos, julgando ser donos das coisas, dos instantes e dos outros. Comigo caminham todos os mortos que amei, todos os amigos que se afastaram, todos os dias felizes que se apagaram. Não perdi nada, apenas a ilusão de que tudo podia ser meu para sempre.

Un acto humano es como una piedra arrojada al mar. Cae con gran estrépito y agita el agua, pero al cabo de un instante la superficie está de nuevo lisa y no se ve ya rastro de la piedra. Lo mismo ocurre con la memoria

Las razas desaparecen, los pueblos se levantan y se borran, los imperios se suceden y la gloria huye como una sombra. Pero seguid alzando vuestras murallas blancas sobre la ribera al pie de las montañas rojas...

Nothing is immune to Time. Not even eternity.

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Was all this real to her? Did she think it was temporary? Or maybe that was the point of love: not to think.

Did she think it was temporary? Or maybe that was the point of love: not to think.

In my essence, I am a stone, unmoving for ten thousand years, unless picked up and moved.

Porque los personajes no mueren jamás, viven siempre que su mundo es «leído». Aunque jamás consiga besar a su amada, el pastor pintado en una urna griega sabe al menos que la va a contemplar eternamente. Esta es mi apuesta y mi esperanza.

The day in school will profit you Its works are for ever.

Gdje nam je dokaz, da naše ''ja'' traje, da smo ''mi'' još uvijek trajno i neprekidno ''mi'', gdje nam je zapravo mjera?

Probavni sistemi koji traju jedva pet-šest decenija misle da su Spomenici ?ija ?e slava zra?iti još milenije.

I read with a kind of curious terror, learning that words can pin their readers to place, confer permanence on the ethereal, make the unimaginable true.

The sun does not set, nor rises, the sun is fixed at one single point.

Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.

If I take you," she said, and it was a warning, "I'll keep you. Always.

How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.

Para siempre. Forever.

When the mass migration of 1630 did take place, it was the well-organized John Winthrop who led a fleet of eleven ships, loaded with seven hundred passengers and livestock, and bearing a clear objective to plant a permanent community.

A wave of spray from the ocean feels powerful, but it is only there for a moment, the sun dries the puddles and the water is gone. Then you feel maybe it never happened. That is how it was with us. The only wave that changes anything is a tsunami. You have to tear down the houses and destroy the land if you want to be sure no one will forget you.

Not the past, not the lines of pain inscribed on the human body, not a thing will ever disappear.

To love human beauty is to love something whose very existence is doomed. Love should be based on permanence. On solid, secure things.....Love of God. Love of good deeds. Love of country and family. Love of ideas.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.