Quotes About Permanence

Se necesita una educación muy mala para que el daño sea permanente.

I told them that Karl Marx was a theory and that theories change. Today it was this theory, tomorrow that one. But Tolstoi was a great artist and art remains forever.

Yes, Berel-Ayzik, what you say is all very well and good. But just tell us one more thing. Do they die in America like they do here? Or do they live forever?

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

The present is a transitory existence which is made in order to be abolished: it retrieves itself only by transcending itself toward the permanence of future being; it is only as an instrument, as a means, it is only by it's efficacy with regard to the coming of the future that the present is validly realized: reduced to itself it is nothing , one may dispose of it as he pleases.

Little star that I see, Drawn by the moon.' The old words, just as they were first written... They were a link joining me to past centuries, when the stars shone exactly as they do today. And this rebirth and this permanence gave me a feeling of eternity.

C'était tellement attendu, et tellement inconcevable, (...). C'était elle encore, et à jamais son absence.

Stars and blossoming fruit trees: Utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Filho caríssimo de Egeu: somente os deuses fogem aos males da velhice e aos da morte; o tempo onipotente abate tudo mais; decai a força da terra, decai o corpo; a lealdade finda e floresce a perfídia e tanto entre os amigos quanto entre as cidades não prevalece para sempre o mesmo ânimo; agora para uns, amanhã para outros, cede a doçura seu lugar ao amargor e depois volta a transformar-se em amizade

Only the Eternal is always appropriate and always present, is always true. Only the Eternal applies to each human being, whatever his age may be.

Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion.

Life is an art the one cannot erase

Though we do live once but can last forever.

I'll be around my whole life. That's a long time to me.

Great books live longer than people.They are gonna bury us all.

Nothing changes and everything does.

Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once moreYe myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,And with forc'd fingers rudeShatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

Photography threatens because photography implies notice and permanent record.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

Unlike baked beans, loaves of breads, or Fuji apples, books, once consumed, do not disappear.

That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one might say, "See this, it is new"? Already it has existed for ages which were before us.…" The

If you believe in forever, then life is just a one-night stand.

Never ever be carried away, bothered or moved by any in-thing or rather by anything that is in vogue presently. For, everything that is currently in vogue is fugacious. That is to say, everything that is in vogue presently is bound to fade away or change with time. Oh! yes, nothing or no one lasts or lives forever. ~Emeasoba George