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Quotes About Permanence

There was even a scrap of poetry he treasured which stated that a moving finger having once written could never be lured back to unwrite.
~ Isaac Asimov
A slit throat cannot be sewn together again.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
All you will have is the present. Waste no energy crying over yesterday or dreaming of tomorrow. Nostalgia is fatiguing and destructive, it is the vice of the expatriate. You must put down roots as if they were forever, you must have a sense of permanence.
~ Isabel Allende
Apa yang tidak kugoreskan di atas kertas akan terhapus oleh waktu.
~ Isabel Allende
Lo más temible de la muerte era la idea de la eternidad. Muerto para siempre, qué horror
~ Isabel Allende
Se consideraba un transeúnte en este mundo, un viajero de paso que no se detenía a profundizar en nada excepto el arte, que le ofrecía permanencia.
~ Isabel Allende
Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.
~ Ahmet Ertegun
'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.
~ Henry Rollins
Women, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to be seventy, it stretches into a condor.
~ Billy Elmer
The more things change, the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.)
~ Alphonse Karr
There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent.
~ Ralph L. Woods
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
~ C. S. Lewis
Weep not that the world changes- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.
~ William Cullen Bryant
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
~ Hebrews
There are trees that seem to die at the end of autumn. There are also the evergreens.
~ Gilbert Maxwell
The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
~ Hugh Casson
Fashions fade - style is eternal.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
Turkey will be in Cyprus forever.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
In 1970, somebody once asked me whether I thought my books would still be around in 40 years, and I thought, 'How would I know, and why would I care?' Well, it turns out I really do care.
~ Judy Blume
Just like I tell my daughters, first impressions are important, so once it's out there, whether it's a picture or a TV show, it's there; it's gonna be out there forever.
~ Kyle Richards
If you ever plan to run for office, if you're a teenager, remember everything you do, every tweet, every Facebook posting, every picture you put on Instagram will be there forever for journalists and politicians - for your competition to dig up.
~ Rick Smolan
A tweet in an article can feel more permanent and louder than a tweet on Twitter.
~ Jenny Han
Usually what goes through my mind before I hit the tweet button is, did I misspell or mis-grammatize anything, but also, is this worth polluting the interwebs with for posterity?
~ Don Willett
Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever.
~ Douglas Rushkoff