When the world has always taken from you, when it’s…

Human existence requires stability, the permanence of things

— Anonymous

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

— Anne Carson

Even after the entire world has taken me apart, there's still a part of me left for you.

— Anonymous

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

— Saint Francis de Sales

“Death was surely not an ephemeral interloper; its lasting effect was grating and horrible and one was constantly reminded of the permanence of an…

— Henry H. Roth

“Permanence is an illusion.”

— Brian Rathbone

“I, too, had set out to be remembered. I had wanted to create something permanent in my life- some proof that everything in its…

— Susan Orlean

Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is…

— Maimonides

“ The illusion of permanence”

— I Ching

“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…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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