Quotes About Permanence

La calidad se recuerda mucho tiempo después de haber olvidado el precio».

The omnisecular spirit keeps the old with the new also. Nothing at all has suffered erasure. There is life not of our time. He calls ungainly bodies As beautiful as the grace of horses. He is weary of nothing; he watches air-planes; he watches pelicans.

I have been here before, I am here now, I will be here again.

It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have to be stronger than love, and it is a thing which I do not know.

Things pass, but the essence remains. You sit, therefore, in the midst of a dream.

OK, Finlay, let's get it done," I said. "I don't have an address because I don't live anywhere. Maybe one day I'll live somewhere and then I'll have an address and I'll send you a picture postcard and you can put it in your damn address book, since you seem so damn concerned about it.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

It was the opinion of Leonardo that the temporary nature of music caused its inferiority to painting. Although durability was in itself no absolute test,—else the work of coppersmiths would be the highest art,—yet in any final scale, permanence could not altogether be disregarded. Music perished in the very act of its creation, while painting preserved the beautiful from the hand of time.

Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or so I tell myself, anyway.

Judging is a defense mechanism. If anger in its purest form is temporary displeasure, then judgment is permanent rejection.

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.

All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.

Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is unchanging.

The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.

Never make permanent eternal decisions based on sense knowledge.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things which we create in common.

The only truly consistent are the dead.

Dieu: Quelque chose qui reste et qui ne trompe pas.

And as on Tullia's tomb one lamp burned clear, Unchanged for fifteen hundred year...' He repeated the lines to himself, and was desolated to think of all the murdered past.

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

Stava pensando alla misteriosa permanenza dell'amore, nella corrente mai ferma della vita.

Lo que era para nosotros, lo hemos hecho, y vos lo sabéis. Creedme: lo hemos hecho para siempre.