Quotes About Permanence

Father John Misty is rebelling not against repression or foolishness but the ephemeral nature of mankind. He seeks permanence in a fleeting age, and he does not find it because the one place he could find an answer, he considers closed off: a locked door.

The thing with Crocs and the Chanel dress, one is quick, fast and regrettable, the other is enduring and iconic.

I'm not considered as illegitimate as I once was. Because in a sense, I'm like lip cancer - I'm not going to go away.

Being the first flyweight champion would be history. I'd be immortal. No matter what I do, that's always there.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

Whereas you do man-work. Build something and it's there for hundreds of years. I cook the food, do the dishes, hang out the sheets, pay gas bills, electricity bills and it all has to be done again the next time. As Virginia Woolf says, "Nothing remains of it.

Wars today seem to occur at a more precise point in time but deep down they are permanent.

Love isn't like a cup of sugar that gets used up

One of the fun things about wrestling is that you can do a move and leave your stamp on the business forever.

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered the literary landscape for the better, opening new textual doors and engaging new readers. That the author's oeuvre was essential and irreplaceable and transformative.

The beauty of the day is the only thing that doesn't fade in time. Day after day, such beauty revives itself.

What we assume will be temporary often becomes permanent; what we assume is permanent often proves temporary.

It's a Secret of Adulthood: What we assume will be temporary often becomes permanent; what we assume is permanent often proves temporary.

The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.

The ideals of homo faber, the fabricator of the world, which are permanence, stability, and durability, have been sacrificed to abundance, the ideal of the animal laborans.

non seulement le passé n'est jamais mort, mais il n'est même pas passé

Only the existence of a public realm and the world's subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and relates them to each other depends entirely on permanence. If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men.

Ce monde d'objets révèle de façon spectaculaire la partie non mortelle des êtres mortels. Tout se passe comme si la stabilité du monde se faisait transparente dans la permanence de l'art

The task and potential greatness of mortals lie in their ability to produce things works and deeds and words which would deserve to be and, at least to a degree, are at home in everlastingness, so that through them mortals could find their place in a cosmos where everything is immortal except themselves.

We have a tendency to believe good things will last forever. It is in our nature.

Since 1890, the Tour d'Argent's basic recipe hasn't changed. If you find yourself at the restaurant tomorrow, you will eat duck in the confidence that it was what someone ate a hundred years ago. You will eat it in the expectation that someone else will be served it a hundred years from now.

My first love, I'll never forget, and it's such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways, we could never be together, but that doesn't mean that it's not forever. Because it is forever.

Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.