Quotes About Permanence

Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

Helen says it alone endures while men and houses perish, and that in the end the world will be a desert of chairs and sofas--just imagine it!--rolling through infinity with no one to sit upon them

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Part of me doesn't want to ruin it. Doesn't want to even imagine that it isn't perfect.

So abased, so monotonous is everything that meets the eye, that when the Ganges comes down it might be expected to wash the excrescence back into the soil. Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, welling here, shrinking there, like some low but indestructible form of life.

All of us, even the sophisticated, yearn for permanence, and to the unsophisticated permanence is the chief excuse for a work of art.

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

There's never any knowing—(how am I to put it?)—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever.

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.

The landscape conveys an impression of absolute permanence. It is not hostile. It is simply there - untouched, silent and complete. It is very lonely, yet the absence of all human traces gives you the feeling you understand this land and can take your place in it.

For deeds do die, however nobly done,And thoughts of men do as themselves decay,But wise words taught in numbers for to run,Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.

Life is a continuum. The soul is all that's permanent. Death is a rebirth. Leaves and birds come back, so does the soul. We all have a life cycle. It's nature, part of the universe, part of everything around us.

De mi cuerpo en descomposición crecerán flores, yo estaré en ellas, y eso es la eternidad

Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.

Your necklace may break, the fau tree may burst, but my tattooing is indestructible. It is an everlasting gem that you will take into your grave.

Fashions change, but style is forever.

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

According to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.