Quotes About Permanence

Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times.

Everyone had a forever.

It's like forever, always changing.

Sabia que no había ninguna garantía. Ninguna manera de saber lo que vendría después para mi, o para el, o para cualquiera. Algunas cosas no duran para siempre, pero otras si. Como una buena canción, o un buen libro, o un buen recuerdo que tu puedas sacar y desplegar en tus momentos mas oscuros, oprimiendo las esquinas y mirando detenidamente, esperando que aún reconozcas a la persona que ves allí.

You first learn truth, once it's with you, it never really goes away.

Algunas cosas no duran para siempre, pero otras sí. Como una buena canción, o un buen libro, o un buen recuerdo que se puede recuperar y contemplar en los malos momentos..

It's like forever, always changing.

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

With a little luck, you discover that the people in your life, permanently placed, are able to follow your innermost, deeply concealed motives.

But oh, unreality! Unreality, unreality! That has been my scheme for a troubled but eternal life.

a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

This beauty would remain whether he was here to see it or not.

Thoughts come back; beliefs persist; facts pass by never to return.

I pity those who make much ado about the transitory nature of all things and are lost in the contemplation of earthly vanity: are we not here to make the transitory permanent? This we can do only if we know how to value both.

What dazzles is a Momentary act: What's true is left for posterity, intact.

Ah, God! but Art is long, And Life, alas! is fleeting.

Lo que brilla, ha nacido para el instante; lo auténtico permanece intacto para la posteridad.

Lo que brilla nació para el instante; lo auténtico permanece imperecedero en la posteridad.

the very basic theme of poetry is that of time passing, the very basic theme of painting is that of the moment made permanent.

is likely to survive for another 100 billion years or more.

Life will stop, but time will go on.

Yesternight the sun went hence,And yet is here today.

Only our love hath no decay; This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay...