Quotes About Permanence

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

Alte Wahrheiten sind und klingen nicht originell, doch es sind und bleiben Wahrheiten, und das ist die Hauptsache.

Time may smooth the stone, but time will never wear it away.

It all seems so permanent, so old and new at the same time. But I wonder if I will ever feel completely new again. Or will I spend the rest of my life feeling like a walking disease?

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Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

This is perhaps a more useful way to think about the shape of time—not as a line or an arrow or a circle or a spiral, but something living, a circle that expands out of sight, invisible roots that grow and grow even as the parts we can see die off. "The world is always new," wrote Ursula K. Le Guin, "however old its roots.

Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.

Come my Celia, let us prove,While we can, the sports of love;Time will not be ours forever,He at length our good will sever.Spend not then his gifts in vain;Suns that set may rise again,But if once we lose this light,'Tis with us perpetual night.

Properly cared for, a Savile Row suit can be handed down the generations—like gout.

Thus it is that bodies shut in tombs often preserve their original shape until the outside air reaches them and reduces them to dust.

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe i shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

litera scripta manet.

Success in America - what I find with my homeland, nothing lasts very long. Europe is different. You're right there with them until you come back.

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

Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.

I don't think human beings have changed in 2,000 years.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.

with you forever. I refuse to put the permanent stamp of organized

Nothing that ever was changes. Yet nothing that is can ever be the same as what went before.

Nothing man invents can last forever, including Christ, his most mischievous invention.

From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.

People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.