Quotes About Permanence

I'd been hearing that tune for sixty years. Musical taste changes so little. The sound of late childhood plays at our funerals.

Civilization will fade away, but that will go on forever.

Neither beauty nor innocence nor the best of intentions can alter that which has always been.

Stone seems to bring into play an opposite quality of time. Stone, unlike man-made materials, is a primary material; therefore, it seems to existed not in a bracketed temporality but in a time that implies the infinite. Stone seems to have an otherworldly quality to it.

It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.

I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect. To build something permanent, I said. A monument to last a thousand years.

How old is she now? he asked. Hard to say. She was a tree for a while. Now she's immortal.

Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.

You may choose to believe or not, but the fact is that immortal means immortal. Can you imagine that for a moment, never dying? Never fading? Existing, just as you are, for all time?

As C. S. Lewis observed, "All that is not eternal is eternally useless." The Bible says, "We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."12

Their names written on water. Or scorched into the earth. Or atomized into the air. Legion.

Like fire, the passage of time devoured all things, even a man's life, until it was utterly consumed.

It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.

Everything that flickered could be made permanent. That was what drew him to photography, what made every painstaking step worth it: the permanence of the image. That was what fascinated him, the working against time...

The elemental human desire to add meaning and permanence to life-to avoid the fate rendered by Dante as no more memorial/ Than foam in water or smoke upon the wind - take on additional depth and urgency for those who have intense moods and brooding dispositions.

There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.

People were born and died, cities could rise and fall, wars began and ended, but Kingsbridge Cathedral would last until the Day of Judgement.

Incompetence can be dreadfully stable.

Nada es perdurable, salvo el cambio.

You can make a mark across the night with the tip of an embered stick, and you can actually see it fixed in its finity. You can be absolutely certain of its treacherous impermanence.

it burns away certain lingering afflictions and sources of ignorance. Each time you fully enter this state, more of these afflictions are burned away. And after a certain number and type of these entrances—often four—you have burned away everything there is to burn, and so you can enter this state at will, and remain there permanently. You can enter nirvana permanently, and samsara ceases to arise in your case. The entire world of Form ceases to arise.

A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.

Whence has come thy lasting power.

The power of narrative sort of defines something forever and ever.