Quotes About Permanence

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

Endless improvements turn out to be merely endless transformations, thus announcing the uncomfortable truth that identity is permanently insubstantial and mutable.

We do not hide the truth in eternity. (On ne cache pas le vrai - Dans l'éternité.)

clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the

it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and

In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.

Then, the sea fell, and the dying voice made another feeble effort, and then the sea rose high, and beat its life out, and lashed the roof, and surged among the arches, and pierced the heights of the great tower; and then the sea was dry, and all was still.

The rich mould of dead men's graves. Creeping where grim death has been, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. Whole ages have fled and their works decayed, And nations have scattered been; But the stout old Ivy shall never fade, From its hale and hearty green. The brave old plant in its lonely days, Shall fatten upon the past; For the stateliest building man can raise, Is the Ivy's food at last. Creeping on where time has been, A rare old plant is the Ivy green.

The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Silence is the uninterrupted sound of forever.

Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever.

It's an odd question actually, because your body has never been a permanent thing – it is an illusion.

We are everywhere already and always.

Un peu de toi est entré en moi pour toujours et m'a contaminé comme un poison.

U svakom slu?aju, on je bio tog uverenja da ništa nije zauvek i definitivno završeno.

Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.

heresies are not like clothing styles or beards, my lord, to go in and out of fashion by the season or the year." Alixana

Las leyes están escritas en arena, las costumbres en granito PLATÓN

All tall trees are wise, according to the West African teacher Malidoma Somé, because their movement is imperceptible, the connection between above and below so firm, their physical presence so generously useful.

Perhaps some day, I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on.

Perhaps someday, I will be gone. But what I believed and felt will live on.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

I've always been infatuated with death. I'm drawn to the permanence of it and the unknown.