Quotes About Permanence

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

At the end of this day there remains what was left behind of yesterday and what will be left behind of tomorrow: the insatiable, innumerable longing to be always the same and always other.

Independently of me the grass grows, the rain falls on the grass that grows, and the sun shines on the patch of grass that grew or will grow; the hills have been there for ages, and the wind blows in the same way as when Homer heard it, even if he didn't exist.

I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

You don't try to fix things that aren't broken.

If 'Bobby McGee' lasts, if 'Star Is Born' lasts, if 'Help Me Make It through the Night' lasts, if all of 'em last, man... who cares?

We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

Acting between action and cut is temporary. The result is permanent.

I hate 'girlfriend' because it sounds so temporary. It's very junior high.

I'm a suit guy. I like wearing them for the sense of completion they offer. I like buying them for the sense of near permanence - the knowledge that whatever I buy will be part of my life for the next ten years or so.

What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.

There is really no creation, and no dissolution.

Permanence has been swept aside by the rapidity of empty images. The pantheon, we discover to our astonishment, is the doghouse of the burning asylum... We think our brain is a marble mausoleum, when in fact it's a house made of cardboard boxes, a shack stranded between an empty field and an endless dusk.

cuando todo el mundo civilizado desaparezca México seguirá existiendo, cuando el planeta se desvanezca o se desintegre, México seguirá siendo México

Ten times dead was very dead indeed.

No one lives forever," the walls seemed to say. "Four stones stacked atop one another will outlive all your dreams and still stand when your descendants have long forgotten that you lived here.

Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it.

Humans die and the memories of who they were and what they did fade. But stone remembers its task.

When settled people look for security, they look for continuity." Here

Death is always at the edge of now.