Quotes About Permanence

Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.

Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends

We have familiar experience of the order, the constancy, the perpetual renovation of the material world which surrounds us. Frail and transitory as is every part of it, restless and migratory as are its elements, still it abides. It is bound together by a law of permanence, and though it is ever dying, it is ever coming to life again. Dissolution does but give birth to fresh modes of organization, and one death is the parent of a thousand lives.

A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of timeAnd razure of oblivion.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rime.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

Truths that wake,To perish never.

Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide; The Form remains, the Function never dies; While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise, We Men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish;—be it so!

Death is the thing that differentiates art and life. Art is identical with the idea of permanence. It is a continuity and not an individual spasm. Life is the idea of the person.

you read a novel to the end, then it's over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I'd much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.

If you read a novel to the end, then it's over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I'd much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.

Important things remain important things, no matter how much the world changes.

in Ecclesiastes 1:9-11 "There is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything new of which one might say, 'See this, it is new?' Already it has existed for ages which were before us. There is no remembrance of earlier things; and of the later things which will occur, there will be no remembrance among those who will come later still.

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

Times change, faces change but the doubt remains, the fear remains-

The highest things are always the first to go. The basic things, the animal things, are preserved the longest. The high always falls. The low can't fall.

They say you can't step into the same river twice. But maybe a truer saying is that you can't ever dry off.

Does this story have a happy ending?" Bobby asked. "There is no such thing as an ending," she said. "Good things come out of bad things and bad things come out of good things, but it always continues. It's as in life. Books are life. There is just the part you read. They start before that. They finish after it. Everything carries on forever. You are only in it for those pages, for a tiny window of time.

What I feel is the momentary shock of realizing that most of the wood, metal and plastic fixtures, the sinks, lampshades, the shower stall, and even the drinking cups will all outlive me if my body follows the same progression that this tiny invisible-to-the-eye virus has initiated.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

That is the essence of painting, child. To capture something utterly temporary and conjure permanence.