Quotes About Permanence

Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Where that comes in that shall not go again.

Some men leave a trail of legend behind them because they give their spirit to the place where they have lived, and remain forever a part of the rocks and mountain streams.

The world keeps changing, but there is always something, somewhere, that remains the same.

The world keeps on changing, but there is always something, somewhere, that remains the same.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

The chalk marks are transient, the formulas eternal.

and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.

Certains moments ont un goût d'éternité.

Underneath my grief that day a resolution was hardening into cement: I would never, ever again create something thinking that I would be able to preserve it.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

I am composed of the formal and the material; and neither of them will perish into non-existence, as neither of them came into existence out of non-existence. Every part of me then will be reduced by change into some part of the universe, and that again will change into another part of the universe, and so on for ever.

since nothing comes out of nothing, and nothing can be annihilated.

It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change. 43.

It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change.

37. If you've seen the present, then you've seen everything -- as it's been since the beginning, as it will be forever. The same substance, the same form. All of it.

If once round and solid, there is no fear that ever it will change.

that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period; ii. that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down.

They told us to depend on memory, because nothing written down could be relied on. The Spirit travels from mouth to mouth, not from thing to thing: books could be burnt, paper crumbles away, computers could be destroyed. Only the spirit lives forever, and the Spirit isn't a thing.

A wall that cannot be defended is no sooner built than ended.

After we're gone the work of our knives will survive us.

of course you'll die but not yet, you'll outlive even my distortions of you