Quotes About Permanence

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

Bifurkasi itu adalah momen yang mengkristal. Kamu nggak bisa kembali ke sana, tapi ia sebenarnya ada dalam kekekalan.

Your own innocence is the only flower that exists. It never fades, and because of that, the world never fades either.

The divine doesn't appear by glimpses, in peak moments with sudden blinding light. The divine is constant; it is we who come and go.

Ego-based power will only last as long as those things last. As soon as the title, the job, the money go away, so does the power. Self-power, on the other hand, is permanent, because it is based on the knowledge of the Self.

As Raymond Aron, that rarest of things, a modern French liberal, noted, in Clive James's translation, "the liberal believes in the permanence of humanity's imperfection; he resigns himself to a régime in which the good will be the result of numberless actions, and never the result of conscious choice."10 You could call it the invisible hand, noting that it is true also of other systems, such as language.

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. These are the old truths. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

holiness does not dissolve

Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

What we do in life ripples in eternity.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.

Now there are permanent gray smudges in Scotty's vision. He says he likes them--actually, what he says is: "I consider them a visual enhancement." We think they remind him of his mom.

A dog's love is forever. We expect infidelity from one another; we marvel at this one's ability to hold that one's interest for fifty, sixty years; perhaps some of us feel a secret contempt for monogamy even as we extol it, wishing parole for its weary participants. But dogs do not receive our sympathy or our suspicion—from dogs we presume an eternal adoration.

If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him last.

But does forever have a built-in ending...?

Heathcliff, make the world stop right here. Make everything stop and stand still and never move again. Make the moors never change and you and I never change.

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees.  My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.