Quotes About Permanence

Our desire to preserve is a form of denial about our own mortality. The fact that art can indure longer than people has lead some to seek a form of proxy-immortality through it. If we accept that art is mortal too, and that nothing is truly permanent, maybe we can see more clearly where the value of art and life is to be fount - in experiencing them.

Uno puede releer un libro, pero cuando un pulóver está terminado no se puede repetirlo sin escándalo.

El tiempo es lo único que permanece y que nos sobrevivirá cuando ya no estemos.

SIXTY-NINE She was Amy, and she was forever. She was one of Twelve and also the other, the one above and behind, the Zero. She was the Girl from Nowhere, the One Who Walked In, who lived a thousand years; Amy of Multitudes, the Girl with the Souls Inside Her. She was Amy. She was Amy. She was Amy. She

The wisdom which is now conventional claims that light creates shadows. But the facts are otherwise. Darkness came first and is infinitely older and more enduring than light. Light borrows a little space; then it dies or moves on, and the dark exists again as if it had never been disturbed.

Hier bleibt alles beim Alten. Das war schon immer so.

Kingdoms Come and Go, but the Word Stays True. - Kailin Gow, Fearless Fairy Tales Series

They have made me understand how the City can get under your skin, and never be sweated out. I mean, it's still aesthetically traumatic, but it's got spirit.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.

I believe that the Jewish state will exist forever.

I am what I was before joining films. Nothing has changed, and I hope nothing will ever change. I'll always remain the way I am.

I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not some books continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, and cities have been decayed and demolished?

It seems safe to say that apes know about death, such as that is different from life and permanent. The same may apply to a few other animals, such as elephants, which pick up ivory or bones of a dead herd member, holding the pieces in their trunks and passing them around. Some pachyderms return for years to the spot where a relative died, only to touch and inspect the relics. Do they miss each other? Do they recall how he or she was during life?

Heute Ist immer noch (Today is like always).

Time flies on restless pinions — constant never.

We weren't quite immortal. We did not age, so I suppose some of our kind could endure forever, if lakes and rivers last forever. Difficult to say. We did not really live, not like mortals. We dreamed.

History is like that, always gobbling up the present.

E soprattutto, dentro tutto quanto, attorno a tutto quanto, c'era la nebbia. Era più costante del sole, poiché non poteva essere nascosta dalle nuvole. Era più potente delle tempeste, poiché poteva durare più della furia delle intemperie. Era sempre lì. Mutevole ma eterna

All things have a soul. A vase, a wall, a chair. And when a vase is broken, it might die in the physical realm, but for a time its soul remembers what it was. So all things die twice. Its final death is when men forget it was a vase, and only think of the pieces. I imagine the vase floating away then, its form dissolving into the nothingness.

Permanence: This one is tough, because thinking that our struggle will never end is built in to the experiences of despair and hopelessness. This is the "Tomorrow will be no different from today" thinking. One way to build resilience is to practice thinking about the temporary nature of most setbacks as a part of how we look at adversity on a daily basis.