Quotes About Permanence

to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever.

As Heraclitus put it, 'Nothing endures but change.

The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.

Fashions come and go, but jawlines are eternal.

They did not speak. Once, she said suddenly, "Mr. Galt." "Yes?" "No. Nothing. I just wanted to know whether you were still there." "I will always be there.

You know, I'm not any kind of a great man. I couldn't have built that railroad. If it goes, I won't be able to bring it back. I'll have to go with it. . . .

There is no such thing as a temporary suicide.

They both disturbed and comforted me, those trees that looked as if they might uproot themselves and simply walk away, were it not for the knowledge that on this earth one place is not so different from another—the knowledge that one moment carries within it all that's gone on before.

Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.

When a thing is put down in such permanent mediums as paint or stone it should be a thing well worthy of record. It must be the work of one who has looked at all things, has interested himself in all life.

The man who has come to this is the man who was here from the beginning. He does what he always did. Nothing has changed.

So if you're living your life around a temporary role and allowing your treasure chest to remain barren in terms of your only real permanent role, then you're letting yourself be seduced by the culture and robbed of the true richness of your life—the deep and lasting satisfaction that only comes through family relationships.

W]e long for something permanent … Yet … experience provides nothing but change.

Even though the ball comes to a rest, the energy that once moved it is still here, it's been converted … , but it won't disappear. … Nothing stops.

B]ecause of change, what we love continues to appear, and what we hate never lasts forever.

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.

That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.

The stories we love best do live in us forever.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.

I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.