Permanence Quotes

But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, ...

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of a...

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and ca...

For, dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true?Cling to it long enough, and n...

You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear...

Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead...

Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangibl...

What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent techno...

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to ...

Above all human existence requires stability, the permanence of things. The result is an ambivalence...