Quotes About Permanence

It's not really much good tearing out a page because you can see the place where it's been torn. [...] You can pull a stamp out,' she said with terrible youthful clarity, 'and you don't know that it's ever been there.

happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness

Rooms don't change, ornaments stand where you place them: only the heart decays.

She loved him whatever that meant but love was not an eternal thing like hatred and disgust.

She loved him whatever that meant but love was not an eternal

Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever.

Letters could lie all right, but they made the lie permanent. They lay as evidence against you: they made you meaner than the spoken word.

There are certain songs, and books, and films that are like points of high ground in the memory. Like they are even larger than your own experiences. They never go away.

And though, indeed, it only happened once, it's gone on happening, the way unique and momentous things do, for ever and ever, as long as there's a memory for them to happen in …

The images I'd most like to wipe away cling to life with the tenacity of weeds, while those I want to treasure fade like the blush on a rose.

Time goes, you say? ah no! Alas, time stays, we go.

There's no such thing as forever. I don't know why we use the word.

In the United States, after World War II, it took about two decades for the message to slowly seep in that inflation was going to be a permanent fact of the American way of life.

The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't.

Once you are trained in the international martial arts, your body and mind become toned permanently. You can take on any action role.

A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

Look at yourself; you are the same person since you were born. During these forty years of your life, all the cells of your body have changed, but you are still you, even though you are liv- ing in time and space. So it is with tradition.

Every Jew was the last Jew; Tevye the Terminal, every single one. Yet, Kugel couldn't help but observe, in all that time - no last Jew. There had been a last Assyrian. There had been a last Ammonite. There had been a last Babylonian, a last Mesopotamian, a last of the Mohicans. But no last Jew.

My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don't, and that's what makes them more precious.

Nonrefundable. It was a good, solid word, one you couldn't chew, one that only dissolved after sucking slowly.

and thought how her chest felt like a gutted walnut shell, and wondered if that sensation might last forever.

My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.

Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it's mark.

I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same.