Quotes About Permanence

And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.

The One remains, the many change and pass;Heaven's light forever shines, earth's shadows fly;Life, like a dome of many-colored glass,Stains the white radiance of eternity,Until Death tramples it to fragments—Die,If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek!

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Epipsychidion

I change, but I cannot die.

Perhaps it's true that love is eternal. But it's appearance changes all the time.

He had read somewhere that when a man marries a woman, he hopes she will stay the same forever, but when a woman marries a man, her agenda is to change him.

You are not to do any work at all. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.

The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

But the open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession.

All the holy offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and to your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the LORD for you and your offspring.”

by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.

He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.

The words “Once more” signify the removal of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that the unshakable may remain.

For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.