Quotes About Permanence

As historian Albert L. Hurtado wrote, War, pestilence, and famine blow books around the planet like so many hostages to uncertain fortune. Thieves steal, vandals deface, pious clergy burn, and worms eat books. Whether threatened by worms or war, there is nothing permanent about books and libraries.

Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

Elegance is innate...individual...eternal...it stands the test of time!

The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.

Truthless times need timeless truths.

Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.

Much rain wears the marble.

Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

You may admire, even love those photographs, but you don't look at them and think What happened next? They have an immutable quality - that's their strength and power. But there's no question embedded in them. There's a question embedded in all your work, that sense of 'what happens next.

Paper is more patient than man.

Paper has more patience than people.

Maybe the old ones are right. I refer now to the true immortals—the blood drinkers who've survived the millennia—who say that none of us really changes over time; we only become more fully what we are.

Un monumento non ti dice che questo o quell'altro uomo è passato di lì, ma che ciò che ha provato in un punto del tempo e dello spazio continua. La luna che illuminava allora New Orleans sorge ancora. Finché saranno in piedi quei monumenti, essa sorgerà ancora. Questa sensazione, almeno qua... e là... resta identica.