Quotes About Permanence

Your rock doth not ebb and flow, but your sea.

The imagination… that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.

Nitya is 'permanent', 'eternal'

YANG FANA ADALAH WAKTU Yang fana adalah waktu. Kita abadi: memungut detik demi detik, merangkainya seperti bunga sampai pada suatu hari kita lupa untuk apa. "Tapi, yang fana adalah waktu, bukan?" tanyamu. Kita abadi. Perahu Kertas, Kumpulan Sajak, 1982

Yang fana adalah waktu, kita abadi

And Merritt, I saw now, had figured out the ultimate puzzle—how to live forever. How to leave enough of yourself behind, even if it was scattered in little pieces, that your presence on the earth was no longer temporary, but permanent.

That's immortality my darlings

Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story, rather than the story that is less enduring. —ATTRIBUTED TO COLUMBA OF IONA SIXTH CENTURY A

I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

All time is unreedemable.

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.

Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.

Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.

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