Quotes About Permanence

There is no permanent winning or losing when things move, as they should, in a circle. For is not life continuous? And though I shall die, shall I not also continue to live in everything that is?

There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things: our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks.

But to subsist in bones, and be but Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration.

Generations passe while some trees stand, and old Families last not three Oaks.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not....

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

Mayors, city council members, and legislators come and go, but neighborhoods don't go anywhere.

I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year.

Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement. Sometimes I think: I am older than this tree, older than this bench, older than the rain. And yet. I'm not older than the rain. It's been falling for years and after I go it will keep on falling.

If they have to be named after anything at all, why can't it be things, which have more permanence, like the sky or the sea, or even ideas, which never really die, not even bad ones?

Why do people always have to be named after dead people? If they had to be named after anything at all, why can't it be things, which have more permanence, like the sky or the sea, or even ideas...?

Fill this cup to that love that never changes, never! Fill this cup to the love that goes on living forever! To the love that has been purified by earthly woes and at last with everlasting bliss... divinely glows!

He felt the same way about pulling teeth as he did about amputating limbs, hating to take away something he was never going to be able to put back.

Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you.

To crave forever is to dismiss the beauty and wonder of the cycle.

it's good for the soul to stop and take a long look now and again at what really lasts.

You are permanent, but this life is not.

People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

Life is short. Death is forever.

His name is Robert Paulson and he is forty-eight years old. His name is Robert Paulson, and Robert Paulson will be forty-eight years old, forever.

It's weird how the name outlives the person, the signifier outlasts the signified, the symbol the symbolized.

Das Quietschen von Bettfedern, das Klatschen von Haut auf nackter Haut, das alles war ein biologisches Versprechen, dauerhafter als jedes Ja-Wort.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.