Quotes About Permanence

It's obvious what's timeless and what is not timeless, but you need time to find that answer.

Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

His golden locks Time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.

Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.

Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.

Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things.

In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble.

Gravity is on duty all of the time.

Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.

Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it. ( Tourists in Paris )

Contam cu disperare pe eternitatea pitrei, pe fidelitatea bronzului în dorinÈ›a de a perpetua un corp perisabil, ori deja distrus, insistând totodat? ca marmura, uns? zilnic cu un amestec de ulei È™i acizi, s? prind? fineÈ›e È™i aproape moliciunea c?rnii tinere.

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.

everything had changed but nothing was altered.

Everything has changed but nothing has changed.

The first was that it was almost impossible to get. The second, that, once you had it, it was almost impossible to keep. The third, that these laws applied only to each individual but not to anyone else. In other words, though money was impossible to get and impossible to keep, for everyone else it flowed in by the bucketful and stayed forever.

And so I hunger for something that is permanent, something that will last forever. Truth, I am told, is a thing that will last forever.

Everything alters, yet does remain the same. It might even improve matters.

The house of fame, he thought, is built on melting ice, not steel...

Jean was definitely the girl who mattered, despite her queer ideas and queerer friends. He had no intention of totally abandoning Naomi or Joy or Elsa or—what was her name?—Denise; but the time had come for something more permanent.

And as for the Council—tell it that a road that has once been opened cannot be closed again merely by passing a resolution.' The