Quotes About Permanence

I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.

No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.

This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.

How old is she now?" he asked. "Hard to say. She was a tree for a while. Now she's immortal.

I'll trust in God's unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

Because you are already there [in this world], you can appear in the world. Also, it is not possible for something to vanish which does not exist. Because something is there, something can vanish... But even though you vanish, something which is existent cannot be non-existent. That is the magic.

Damals dachte ich zum ersten Mal daran, mit Stella zu leben. Es war ein jäher, ein tollkühner Gedanke, und heute weiß ich, es war ein in mancher Hinsicht unangemessener Gedanke, der nur entstehen konnte aus der Befürchtung, daß das, was mich mit Stella verband, ein Ende haben könnte. Wie selbstverständlich diese Sehnsucht nach Dauer aufkommt.

timeless (and therefore untimely) truth.

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

After she'd eaten her custard I took her head in my lap, and she talked to me of the balance of nature and the planets, the permanence of the sky and the stars, and of suffering, which after all is only another way of existing.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Be careful of temporary decisions, they can delay you forever.

Si monumentum requiris circumspice [If you would see the man's monument, look around].

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night.

Every field and flower fades, but love is infinite.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.