Quotes About Permanence

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

…he'd assumed their relationship would go on forever. It was going on now, but in another way, like the rearrangement of the stars, which were all still in the sky, just burning in unexpected places.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

Because paper has more patience than people.

That wouldn't be a bad way to die...giving off light for millions of years after you're gone.

Wherever you go, wherever you stay - there is eternity.

The thing about trends is that they change over time, but who you are is forever

Discomfort it temporary. A photo is forever.

Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never die so as the editor.

I don't think there's enough time to repair some things. Some things just become part of a person, like their skin color. It doesn't have to define them, but it's always with them.

The excellent becomes the permanent.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Age in itself gives substance — what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing strangeness of language is part of its beauty, in the same way that the cracks and darkening of an old painting become part of its luminosity in the viewer's mind.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

When the land is abused, nature has a way of striking back. Land will eventually go back to what nature intended, but the cost is high. The land is what it is, no matter what man does or thinks he can do. Benteen Calder knew it, and Webb knew learned it. Hopes die and man moves on, but the land stays.