Quotes About Permanence

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.

Time is out there. Everything that ever happened is still happening. For instance, if I took your hand in mine." Which he did as he was speaking. "It would be happening for hundreds of years.

Life was short, it was over in an instant, but some things lasted. Hate and love, kindness and cruelty, all lingered and, in their case, all had been passed on.

That was history, in his opinion: that sorrow was unalterable and ever present. That tears could be preserved in the hardest granite.

Kill something, and it's yours forever.

Nothing changes really about love.

Do you know what O'Keefe Says about blue? he asked her, blowing out a cloud of smoke, warming to her voice, though he did not remember her face clearly from the opening night's exhibition. What? That it is the color that will remain after everything is destroyed.

It was ludicrous to cry because there was no more Google, but for a moment Harper felt very close to weeping. The idea that Google could collapse and be gone was as hard to imagine as the fall of the Twin Towers. It had seemed at least as permanent a part of the cultural landscape.

When people say our love won't last forever, it sounds like they think anything will.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.

Sometimes I've even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.

You have to understand the purpose of life. The purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

Life is short, but art lives forever.

Life is short and art is long.