The illusion of permanence

It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away.…

— Lisa Unger

“Too many constants were changing, belying the illusion of permanence.”

— Raymond L. Atkins

Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence,…

— Victoria Finlay

Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence,…

— Victoria Finlay

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But…

— Neil Gaiman

“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”

— Woody Allen

“I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, the're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But…

— Neil Gaiman

“But to find it and touch it and hold it! What relief, if only briefly, until love wears off or slips through our hands.…

— Jonathan Hull

“Permanence is an illusion.”

— Brian Rathbone

Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.

— John Cudahy

“if you repeat a temporary answer often enough, it acquires a degree of permanency.”

— Larry McMurtry

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of…

— Tryon Edwards

It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -…

— Michael Dirda