Quotes About Permanence

Last Christmas Daphne hadn't been born yet; nor had Fanny. Now here sat Daphne chewing a wad of blue tissue while Franny stirred her fists through Agatha's jigsaw puzzle. They both seemed so accustomed to being here. And Danny and Lucy had completely vanished . Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying.

we are never old to ourselves. That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.

Now I see my children and I know that they are figures in a lantern show, that their sense of permanence is an illusion, because all around us time is unstoppable.

When you seek to share your best work—your best story, your shot at change—it helps if it's likely to spread. It helps if it's permanent. But even if it's extraordinary, it's not going to make a difference if you drop it in the ocean. That doesn't mean you give up hope. It means you walk away from the ocean and look for a large swimming pool.

I stupidly hoped that time would stand still if I stayed still.

Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn't damage the body, they destroyed the spirit.

My spirit life is also the medium in which I live. It's not something that comes and goes. Without one the other wouldn't exist.

The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program

A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife.

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

The past isn't real because it's history, and the future isn't because it hasn't happened yet. I like it, it hints at virtual reality, which I think is how we sort of feel about life sometimes.

Your life is infinite. You are as old as these mountains and you will remain for ever.

Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

You can't die. Bodies come and go but your spirit is eternal. You're the stuff that life is.

Saying you "have" something implies that it's temporary and undesirable. Asperger's isn't like that. You've been Aspergian as long as you can remember, and you'll be that way all your life. It's a way of being, not a disease.

Mortals cannot win war with what is eternal.

Though alien to modern thinking, we need to reckon with the possibility that written forms are not necessarily significantly more enduring or reliable. In other words, it may be wrong to presume that Jesus' words suddenly became more permanent when recorded in written form, as if our textual culture is better at preserving truth than their oral culture.

Nothing was made before me but eternal things, And I endure eternally. The voice belonged to X. Jason was home, indeed.

Things that seem permanent, a given, have a way of changing quickly, to something you don't recognize. And not all change is for the better.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all—plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change. Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.

a constitution, intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.