Quotes About Permanence

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Honestly speaking, I am very hardcore when it comes to my music because at the end of the day the song that I am creating will remain forever.

What happens to you here is forever.

How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking. But there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of permanence.

L?ch sá»­ gi?ng nhÆ° ???c vi?t trên má»™t t?m da, có th? c?o Ä'i và vi?t l?i bao nhiêu l?n cÅ©ng ???c.

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

In no other way could the ancient cycle be broken. If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

They can't get inside you,' she had said. But they could get inside you. 'What happens to you here is for ever

Non possono entrare dentro di te' aveva detto lei, ma in realtà potevano entrarti dentro. 'Quello che ti accade qui è per sempre' aveva detto O'Brien, ed era la verità. C'erano cose, frutto di azioni compiute in prima persona, dalle quali non ci si riprendeva più.

Having become permanent, the war ceased to be a war.

Men go and come, but the earth abides

It is just as strong today as it ever was

If wisely chosen as to their usefulness and value in the future, they are permanent in their value

Just before I doze off, I counsel myself grandiosely: Fuck concepts. Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

Life is suffering, the Buddha said, by which he did not mean Every moment of life is unbearable but rather All happiness/rest/contentment is transient; all appearances of permanence are illusory.

Who, on seeing a Parisian apartment house, has never thought of it as indestructible? A bomb, a fire, an earthquake could certainly bring it down, but what else? In the eyes of an individual, of a family, or even a dynasty, a town, street, or house seems unchangeable, untouchable by time, by the ups and downs of human life, to such an extent that we believe we can compare and contrast the fragility of our condition to the invulnerability of stone.

Busco a un tiempo lo eterno y lo efímero

No tengo otra opción que evocar lo que demasiado tiempo llamé lo irrevocable; lo que fue, lo que se detuvo, lo que fue clausurado: eso que sin duda fue para no ser más hoy, pero que fue también para que yo sea todavía

Kesilen ka??t elden ç?kar?lmad?kça, kavalye kupadan üstün deÄŸildir.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.