Quotes About Permanence

Childhood feels so permanent

All that matters, from a Darwinian perspective, is permanence—and the dominance hierarchy, however social or cultural it might appear, has been around for some half a billion years. It's permanent. It's real.

O amor eterno não existe. Mesmo a mais forte paixão tem o seu tempo de vida. Chega seu dia, se acaba, nasce outro amor. - Por isso mesmo o amor é eterno - concluiu João Fulgêncio. - Porque se renova. Terminam as paixões, o amor permanece.

Nada de lo que el hombre ha sido, es o será, lo ha sido, lo es ni lo será de una vez para siempre, sino que ha llegado a serlo un buen día y otro buen día dejará de serlo.

Todo es hermoso y constante, Todo es música y razón, Y todo, como el diamante, Antes que luz es carbón.

The truthe wakes up once and never dies.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amid the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.

That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

I had heard the same carols all my life, seen the same little play, with the same mistakes in grammar. The minister had offered the same prayer as always, Christmas or Sunday. The same people wore the same old clothes and sat in the same places. Next year it would be the same, and the year after that, the same again. Vivian said things were changing. But where were they changing?

some species or even large groups seem to have reached the end of their evolutionary possibilities a very long time ago, yet they have not died out, but have remained unchanged, or without significant change, for many millions of years.

A mathematical truth is timeless, it does not come into being when we discover it.

She loved me with a viciousness that kept me from ever feeling complacent, with the reminder that nothing was permanent, that we would one day be lost to each other.

Never think you've seen the last of anything.

When it comes to communication, things never change and yet things are always changing.

Before saying, 'This track is so dope; it's gonna go on the album,' I like to take some time away from it and see how I feel about it in a few months. If it's gonna get released, I gotta love it - it's gonna have my name on it forever.

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

The world remains ever the same.

As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me.

How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.