Quotes About Permanence

We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the August light of abiding memories.

your grandfather called it. It has stood the test of time, and

Nothing in this transitory world lasts eternally; however, the Truths of God last forever.

Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?

Hating The Great Gatsby (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be.

Everything that you think is solid is actually fleeting and ephemeral.

Because it was silver foil and not a living rose, it could never rot and die.

You are at once a lasting presence and an unhealed wound.

This point has to be particularly emphasized, because a wrong notion that consciousness is a sort of Self or Soul that continues as a permanent substance through life, has persisted from the earliest time to the present day.

My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite,I laugh at what you call dissolution,And I know the amplitude of time.

a gentle, permanent reality that was in him like his bones or his heart, that made him seem like an everlasting part of things.

Products come and go, leaders come and go, trends come and go," says Yamashita, "but through all of that, you need to know the answer to the question What is true about us, at our core?

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

God wastes no time on fleeting things.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Los diccionarios solo garantizan una pizca de eternidad...

Nous autres les élèves, nous passons, vous, vous restez! Nous sommes libres et vous en avez pris pour perpète. Nous, les mauvais, nous n'allons nulle part mais au moins nous y allons! L'estrade ne sera pas l'enclos minable de notre vie!

When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity. ~

Ye who have passed Death's haggard hills; and ye Whom trees that knew your sires shall cease to know And still stand silent:--is it all a show,-- A wisp that laughs upon the wall?

Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

Trust me, beaut fades, but dumb is forever.

When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No," she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing inside, no matter how grown-up you are.

None the less, I think there is something in me which will endure. I am fettered by cowardice, I am enfeebled by disastrous memories; and I am maimed by old follies. Still, I seem to detect in myself something which is permanent and rather fine.