Quotes About Permanence

Maybe that's the way everything changes. Just when you finally believe that anything is stable, and will stay the same.

The new world was the same as the old. The houses were different, the streets were called Closes, the clothes were different, the voices were different, but the human beings were the same as they always had been.

You never think about the mall being closed. It's always supposed to be there, like milk in the refrigerator or God.

novels pass in and out of my hands while volumes of poetry are mine for life.

If something's permanent, it's definitely not love.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Los símbolos de decisiones identitarias grabados en el propio cuerpo sugieren, por el contrario, que la identidad que estos implican es, para el sujeto portador, un compromiso más serio y duradero, y no solo un capricho momentáneo. El tatuaje, milagro entre milagros, señala al mismo tiempo la estabilidad (tal vez incluso la irreversibilidad) intencional del compromiso y la libertad de elección que caracteriza la idea de derecho a la autodefinición y a su ejercicio.

En la sociedad, nada puede declararse exento de la norma universal de la "desechabilidad" y nada puede permitirse perdurar más de lo debido.

vivimos en una época de re-ciclaje en la que nada parece morir del todo, de la misma forma que nada, ni siquiera la vida eterna, parece destinado a durar para siempre.

Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.

in art, we do not run to keep up with random moments, we select & create the moment occurring forever:

But we don't get to choose what sticks. How many times I have run my fingers along a picket fence and thought, This! I will remember this moment always! and all that remains is the memory of a desire to hold on to a memory.

A great event, miraculous as it may be, if it happened only once, will hardly be able to dominate forever the mind of man.

And you you bitch no irritating questions re love and permanence only an unrolling lifetime here between your rocking thighs and the semblance of motion

Q: Did he think that love could last forever? A: Well, no, but the limits to eternity didn't lie specifically with love. They lay in the general difficulty of maintaining an appreciative relationship with anything or anyone that was always around.

What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any possible faith in the permanence of our labours. Our ancestors could believe that their achievements had a chance of bearing up against the flow of events.

Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.

The people that we are when we're alive, that's who we are forever, nipper.

A banyan tree may offer shade and hold the promise of permanence, but it does not let even a blade of grass grow around it, nor does it provide life-sustaining fruit for man. The banana plant offers no shade but its rapid regenerative ability ensures it provides food to sustain the family. Snow may be still but cannot sustain life. To sustain life, it must melt, turn into a river and flow down the plains.

And however crazy, or Christian, or unchristian things may be outside, this world, this beautiful world is quite indestructible.