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Quotes About Permanence

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.
~ Helena Blavatsky
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
~ Henri Matisse
I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.
~ Lewis Thomas
That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.
~ Joe Henderson
I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.
~ Doris Lessing
I do a lot of work that's permanent. The drawings, the sculptures, they're permanent.
~ Christo
What's weird is that anybody can write anything, and once it goes online, it's permanent. My very first biography on IMDb, which was written by a manager I had at the time, was not true.
~ Paul Rudd
I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.
~ Ariel Pink
I don't feel insecure at all. There's nothing permanent here. One has to make the most of his/her talent.
~ Amit Trivedi
Cancer didn't have to be permanent; in my case, I'm lucky that my cancer is curable, but infertility was. And it was the first time I realized that cancer wasn't just something seasonal; it wasn't something that was going to pass with the summer. It was something that was going to change my life forever.
~ Suleika Jaouad
We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.
~ Linda McCartney
To be in a position where an organization like the Bulls creates a bust of you that will permanently be displayed in a building like the United Center says it all. It's hard to put into words because it is such an honor. It's great to know that something like that will be around forever.
~ Scottie Pippen
When The Fall pummeled their way into my nervous system, circa 1983, it was as if a world that was familiar - and which I had thought too familiar, too quotidian to feature in rock - had returned, expressionistically transfigured, permanently altered.
~ Mark Fisher
If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.
~ Pindar
Ciascuna per la sua bellezza allora era immediatamente antica, oggi, dopo molto tempo, è recente, nuova e rigogliosa. Sulle opere di Pericle fiorisce come una giovinezza perenne, esse si conservano allo sguardo indenni nel tempo, quasi posseggano infuso un respiro sempre fresco e un'anima che non conosce vecchiezza.
~ Plutarch
babak sinthesis sedang di ambang pintu. Yang jelas, semua yang telah terjadi akan abadi dalam ingatan bangsa ini dan umat manusia sepanjang abad, tak peduli orang suka atau tidak. Para pengarang akan menghidupkannya lebih jelas dalam karya-karyanya. Para pembunuh dan terbunuh akan menjadi abadi di dalamnya daripada sebagai pelaku sejarah saja. Topeng dan jubah suci akan berserakan.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
~ Pythagoras
Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that . . . As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms.
~ Pythagoras
Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. Nor ever can the overt act be erased.
~ Pythagoras
Benjamin Franklin was certain of two things: death and taxes. Taoists are simpler. We are certain of only one thing: change, in all dimensions.
~ Qiguang Zhao
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.
~ Quentin Crisp
Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.
~ Quentin Tarantino
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
~ Quintus Ennius
Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
~ Rabindranath Tagore