Quotes About Permanence

Body art isn't a contest. The only person that has to like it is the person stuck with it for the rest of their life. As long as you love it when you see it, that's all that matters.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent.

I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.

Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

The half-life of love is forever.

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

To feel that life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

A un certo punto c'è qualcosa che ci resiste. È quello che chiamo "inemendabilità", il carattere saliente del reale.

Ben lungi dall'essere fluida, la modernità è l'epoca in cui le parole sono pietre, e in cui si attua l'incubo del verba manent .

The ants Geiser recently observed under a dripping fir tree are not concerned with what anyone might know about them; nor were the dinosaurs, which died out before a human being set eyes on them. All the papers, whether on the wall or on the carpet, can go. Who cares about the Holocene? Nature needs no names. Geiser knows that. The rocks do not need his memory.

La esencia se escapa, pero su aura permanece

Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

Forever as it turns out, is a very long time.

Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man; nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out. After an era of darkness, new races build others; but in the world of books are volumes that live on still as young and fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead. — Clarence Day

He was not of an age, but for all time.

und was lediglich eine saisonale Wampe gewesen war, war jetzt sein dauerhafter Ganzjahresbauch.

The shapes of houses, sometimes transmitted through a hundred generations, seem eternally valid.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy. It is derived, no doubt, from love of home and desire for a refuge from danger; we find, accordingly, that it is most passionate in those whose lives are most exposed to catastrophe.

People's love for us may change, depending on what we do or don't do to please them. But God's does not—it's everlasting.

The moment she lifted me, I was wrapped in her smell. The scent got laid down in me in a permanent way and had all the precision of cinnamon.

Crockery broke and fabric frayed. The delicate things I cared about perished, while the hard things like swords survived.