Quotes About Permanence

The source of suffering is a false belief in permanence and the existence of separate selves.

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

When I buy something, I do so with the intention of keeping it forever.

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

Morwenna says beauty and rainbows soon pass away, but I know for the rest of my life when I look at Meg I will see her like this.

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

Love, once given, is forever. It canna simply go away.

Immortality is immortality.

Forever , just the word fills Beverly with an unaccountable, schoolmarmish sort of rage. Forever, that's got to be bad math, right? Such terrifying math.

Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.

Everything that's created remains as it was before it was created. The artist fetches it down from the heavens as a finished thing. Eternity has no beginning. Poetry or a Joke: the act of creation lies between what's self-evident and what is permanent

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

Nothing changes and everything does.

The past is never over; it is never lost. It circles, as the stones circle, as the stars circle, as the sky circles.

This place had been here long before him. It would go on sighing and breathing and being itself after he had gone, the land lapping on and on, watching, waiting, getting on with its own life.

When a basket is woven, each strand of grass, or reed, or wool, or root, must pass repeatedly through human hands, and this, the principle of human touch, is what remains long after the artifact has lost utility or form, something, I think, about life being lived in its physical moment, something, it must be, about grace.

Memories while true are impermanent, while film, while permanent is untrue.

What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

Matematiksel sonuçlar, içerdikleri de?erler ne olursa olsun, di?erlerinin içinde en kal?c? olanlard?r.

In response to my question, brother shook his head. "Then he's dead," I said. And repeated myself , something I don't often do: "Then he's dead." What is strange was that when I uttered those words, nothing happened. The state of the universe was no worse than usual. Sleeping the same old sleep, everything continued to wear down as if nothing was amiss.

Fashion changes, style remains.

Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?

The work was the thing that lasted, but the work only lasted if people knew it existed.