Permanence Quotes

“Sit here,
so I may write
you into a poem
and make you
eternal.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I have a thing for things that last.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“People tend to see only the stubble fields of transitoriness but overlook and forget the full granaries of the past into which they have brought the harvest of their lives: the deeds done, the loves loved, and last but not least, the sufferings they have gone through with courage and dignity.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will grow tedious. The best art will lose meaning. The greatest creation will decay. Behind all this, lies my true self.”
― Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness

“After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Stone should last forever, but on that night I came to understand that a stone was only another form of dust. Streams of holy dust loomed in the air, and every breath included remnants of the Temple, so that we inhaled that which was meant to stand through eternity.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

“They told us to depend on memory, because nothing written down could be relied on. The Spirit travels from mouth to mouth, not from thing to thing: books could be burnt, paper crumbles away, computers could be destroyed. Only the spirit lives forever, and the Spirit isn't a thing.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

“Does it trouble me to write so insubstantially, with air on air? Well--my words will be as enduring as anything my father wrote, or Shakespeare wrote, or Beethoven wrote, or Darwin wrote. It turns out that they all wrote with air on air.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos

“But was it worth anything?
That's the hopelessness of it. The openness of it. The part of it I can never understand.
I am afraid of ambiguity and certainity and permanence and impermanence.
And so is everybody else.”
― Katherine Ewell, Dear Killer

“The globe-trotter lives in a smaller world than the peasent. He is always breathing an air of locality. London is a place to be compared to Chicage; Chicago is a place, to be compared to Timbuctoo. But Timbuctoo is not a place, sonce there, at least, live men who regard it as the universe, and breathe, not an air of locality, but the winds of the world. The man in the saloon steamer has seen all the races of men; and is thinking of the things that devide men - diet, dress, decorum, rings in the nose as in Africa, or in the ears as in Europe, blue paint among the ancients, or red paint among the modern Britons. The man in the cabbage field has seen nothing at all; but he is thinking of the things that unite men - hunger and babies, and the beauty of women, and the promise or menace of the sky.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

“You are sorrow. You exist, even if joy is present. You’re not like them. You’re not like any other emotion. Hate and fear come and go, but you exist even when the breeze is clear of sadness. You are permanent and needed.”
― H.S. Crow, Lunora and the Monster King

“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 live on the sea and kill our true brothers.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Love is misunderstood by many.
Love is to be in the state of calmness even when everything is getting destroyed of you & around you.
Love is to be Permanent in the law of impermanence.”
― Chetan M. Kumbhar, Panasu The Golden City & The Capasstars

“But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“Never place something that is temporary over the priority of something of permanence.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail

“Don’t make your job your permanent assignment. Rather, make your work your permanent assignment”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“I promise permanence. I promise persistence. I promise that falling in love was just the beginning for us.”
― Liz Newman

“Miracles have a higher percentage of being permanent than magical solutions.”
― Nike Thaddeus

“Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable.”
― J.K. Rowling

“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it in indelible ink.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Writing has the power of permanence.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“If you wipe a dirty spot off a wall you've removed it, but you haven't eliminated it. You're stuck with a dirty rag you didn't have before.”
― Billy Apple

“The city is physical, concrete," Pedro [da Luz] said. "When we make a mistake, it is a mistake that will last for forty, fifty years. That's a problem.”
― Juliana Barbassa, Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink

“Had the love been permanent, there won’t have been divorces after love marriages. Had the love been everlasting, there won’t have been bad blood in the family.”
― Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon

“The old man blinked at the young lady, "You are seeking permanence."
"I guess I am!”
― Tom Hanks, Uncommon Type

“He meant the Grand Canyon was only a mood of nature, a bold promise, a beautiful record. He meant that mountains had sifted away in its dust, yet the canyon was young. Man was nothing, so let him be humble. This cataclysm of the earth, this playground of a river was not inscrutable; it was only inevitable—as inevitable as nature herself. Millions of years in the bygone ages it had lain serene under a half moon; it would bask silent under a rayless sun, in the onward edge of time.

It taught simplicity, serenity, peace. The eye that saw only the strife, the war, the decay, the ruin, or only the glory and the tragedy, saw not all the truth. It spoke simply, though its words were grand: "My spirit is the Spirit of Time, of Eternity, of God. Man is little, vain, vaunting. Listen. To-morrow he shall be gone. Peace! Peace!”
― Zane Grey, The Last of the Plainsmen

“Something I learned when I got older; your actions have a permanence. Delineations from the perfect line. Some mistakes can last a lifetime like the first brush of death. Some beliefs are worth tearing fabric for like perfect lines. It does not matter where a person has been but what they have done. There are people that can still be shallow no matter how much they travel or what they see.”
― Apollo Figueiredo, A Laugh in the Spoke