Quotes About Permanence

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now—always." Albert Schweitzer

The Lord is self-existent and true, and therefore worthy of the confidence of men. He will live when all the creatures die, and His fullness will abide when all second causes are exhausted. To Him, therefore, let us direct our expectation, and on Him let us rest for our confidence.

Objective mathematical notions must be thought of as timeless entities and are not to be regarded as being conjured into existence at the moment that they are first humanly perceived.

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

Je n'avais encore jamais vu un sourire aussi immuable et je me demandais si elle l'enlevait pour dormir.

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

But as long as American civilisation lasts New York will last."99

A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth

Man's life is brief and transitory, Literature endures forever

It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

En quelques mois ça change une chambre, même quand on n'y bouge rien. Si vieilles, si déchues qu'elles soient, les choses, elles trouvent encore, on ne sait où, la force de vieillir. Tout avait changé déjà autour de nous. Pas les objets de place, bien sûr, mais les choses elles-mêmes, en profondeur.

Who was Sancho Panza? Who was Don Abbondio? Yet they live eternally because—live germs as they were—they had the fortune to find a fecundating matrix, a fantasy which could raise and nourish them: make them live for ever!

This was a girl who could tell the difference between the page that perishes and the page that endures.

When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds the knife; whoever 'won' Earth's war, it would be the same old crew who stepped up to hold out their plates: the squabble over Truck and the Device was nothing more than a polite difference as to who should have the largest slice.

Invenções há, que se transformam ou acabam; as mesmas instituições morrem; o relógio é definitivo e perpétuo. O derradeiro homem, ao despedir-se do sol frio e gasto, há de ter um relógio na algibeira, para saber a hora exata em que morre.

TO THE FIRST WORM TO GNAW THE COLD FLESH OF MY CORPSE I TENDERLY DEDICATE THESE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS

Some inventions change or die; even institutions die; but the clock is definite and perpetual. The last man on earth, as he bids farewell to the cold, dead sun, is sure to have a watch in his pocket, so as to know the exact hour of his death.

Não era novo; era um pensamento quase tão velho como o mundo, um pensamento que só há de acabar quando acabarem os séculos.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

This book that defied the categories has now endured for more than half a century, finding new readers in each generation. What is its secret? And what kind of person could produce such a book? Madeleine, c. 1920

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

Begreppet 'lycklig i alla sina dagar', illusionen om bestående lycka, är i själva verket en oxymoron. Antingen konstant lycka eller klimax. Evig lycka är inte någon lycka, på samma sätt som evig orgasm inte alls är någon orgasm.