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Quotes About Permanence

But even if the average life expectancy continued to increase by one year with each passing year, it would take forever for people to live forever, so probably no one would ever see it.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The kids silenced. OK,' Julia said. Well, as you probably know, I'm Sam's mom. He told me not to make a big deal, so I'll keep this to the essentials. First, I want to let you all know how totally psyched I am to be here with you. Sam closed his eyes, willing himself to unlearn object permanence.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Sólo persisten en el tiempo las cosas que no fueron del tiempo.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Sólo perduran en el tiempo las cosas Que no fueron del tiempo.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Yo querría que este momento durara siempre -murmuré. -Siempre es una palabra que no está permitida a los hombres -afirmó Ulrica (…)
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Non c'è nulla di antico sotto il sole. Tutto accade per la prima volta, ma in un modo eterno. Chi legge le mie parole sta inventandole.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Hard to believe Buenos Aires had any beginning. I feel it to be as eternal as air and water.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Timpul nu reface ceea ce pierdem, veÅŸnicia p?streaz? totul pentru slava ei sau pentru a-l încredinÅ£a focului mistuitor.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Timpul nu reface ceea ce pierdem, veÈ™nicia p?streaz? totul pentru slava ei sau pentru a-l încredinÈ›a focului mistuitor.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
A lo largo de los siglos y de las latitudes cambian los nombres, los dialectos, las caras, pero no los eternos antagonistas.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
There are places in which things don't change. These are a substitute for one's memory.
~ Joseph Brodsky
If Meditations is antiquity, it is we who are the ruins.
~ Joseph Brodsky
and though it is perhaps too facile to say that he was already in love with her, it is certainly true that from that moment on she was a permanent element in his mind.
~ Joseph Campbell
It is the sword distinguishing that which is enduring from that which is merely passing. The tick-tick-tick of time shuts out eternity. We live in this field of time. But what is reflected in this field is an eternal principle made manifest.
~ Joseph Campbell
Ah, I think that nothing in the world vanishes utterly—nothing—not only what is said, but what is thought. All our deeds and words and thoughts are little streams, trickling springs underground.
~ A. I. Kuprin
The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail.
~ A.E. Housman
Time change - Moments don't.
~ Abhishek Shukla
Laws change; people die; the land remains.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I shall never believe that what is founded on lies can endure for ever. I believe in truth. I'm sure that, in the long run, truth must be victorious.
~ Adolf Hitler
The process of remembering contributes to that which endures.
~ Adrian Del Caro
Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.
~ Adrien Brody
When you die, nobody pays your hosting company, and your work disappears. Like that.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change.
~ Judy Blume
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
~ Sophocles