Quotes About Permanence

The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.

Hajime, she began, the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back to the way they were. If one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.

Things that have form will all disappear. But certain feelings stay with us forever.

You're here," I continued. "At least you look as if you're here. But maybe you aren't. Maybe it's just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you've hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?

The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.

Es una lástima, pero hay cosas que no pueden volver atrás. Una vez has dado un paso hacia delante, por más que lo intentes, ya no puedes retroceder. Si se estropean, así se quedan para siempre.

It's really difficult to talk about dead people, but it's even harder to talk about dead young women. It's because from the time they die, they'll be young forever. On the other hand, for us, the survivors, every year, every month, every day, we get older. Sometimes, I feel like I can feel myself aging from one hour to the next. It's a terrible thing, but that's reality.

Pierrot knew that everything in the world was alive. Everything was composed of molecules that shook and vibrated and hummed. There was no such thing as permanence. Even the most stalwart object—such as a statue in the park—was struggling to keep itself together.

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.

But of course it's always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can't ever get rid of that.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

Do we become so lost in the patterns and the rhythms in our everyday lives that we fool ourselves into believing they might somehow last forever?

I know none of Time's cardinal pillar on which it says forever just because eternity is not Time anymore.

The clock in the church tower said 4.32, as it had done for three hundred years. It was right once a day and that was better than no clock at all.

You do not grow by acquiring something nor wither away by losing it. You remain what you always are.

Is justice therefore various or mutable? No, but the times, over which it presides, flow not evenly, because they are times.

Time is helpless, he thought to himself, helpless in the face of our feelings. Nine years have passed, and not a note in her voice is different, not a nerve in my body hears her in any other way. Nothing is lost, nothing is past and over, her presence is as much of a tender delight now as it was then.

Pero incluso con sus favoritos, el destino no siempre se muestra magnánimo. Rara vez conceden los dioses a los mortales más de una hazaña única e imperecedera.

Pero a la larga, la fuerza innata de una obra no se deja ocultar, y se resiste a quedar encerrada tras las puertas del olvido. Una obra de arte puede quedar olvidada por un tiempo, puede ser prohibida u ocultada, pero la grandeza acaba siempre por vencer a lo efímero.

Wit lasts no more than two centuries.