Quotes About Permanence

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

En aquel entonces también las palabras me parecieron de piedra, solo que de piedra fluida y cristalina. La piedra se solidificaba al terminar cada palabra, para quedar escrita para siempre en el tiempo. ¿No eran así las palabras de tus mayores?

Yes, except that nothing sleeps inside but furniture, and that's probably gone to pieces by now. Time gets into anything; yes, indeed it does; and weather helps it.

Everything falls apart. The only thing in life that is permanent is family.

Dessutom kunde jag inte glömma vad min syster en gång hade sagt till mig medan hon ammade: ''Att skaffa barn är som att skaffa sig en tatuering i ansiktet. Man måste vara bergsäker på att det är så man vill ha det innan man sätter igång.

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit

How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-longThat on the stretched forefinger of all TimeSparkle forever.

Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast,And in a little while our lips are dumb.Let us alone. What is it that will last?All things are taken from us, and becomePortions and parcels of the dreadful Past.

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;Close to the sun in lonely lands,Ring'd with the azure world he stands.The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;He watches from his mountain walls,And like a thunderbolt he falls.

The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

As soon as high consciousness is reached, the enjoyment of existence is entwined with pain, frustration, loss, tragedy. Amid the passing of so much beauty, so much heroism, so much daring, Peace is then the intuition of permanence. It keeps vivid the sensitiveness to the tragedy; and it sees the fineness beyond the faded level of surrounding fact. Each tragedy is the disclosure of an ideal: What might have been, and was not; What can be. The tragedy was not in vain.

The mountain endures. But when after ages it has worn away, it has gone. If a replica arises, it is yet a new mountain. A colour is eternal. It haunts time like a spirit. It comes and it goes. But where it comes, it is the same colour. It neither survives nor does it live.

All's change, but permanence as well"... and continued:   "Truth inside, and outside, truth also; and between each, falsehood that is change, as truth is permanence."   "Truth successively takes shape, one grade above its last presentment...

I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

We are the ones there are, and will always be.

I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

If you know how to read, you know how forever. You can't unread.

Money comes and goes, darling. Tiaras are forever. So are titles." Gabrielle

The more things change, the more they are the same.