All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
“Above all human existence requires stability, the permanence of things. The result is an ambivalence with respect to all great and violent… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only… — Socrates Copy Share Image
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think vampires are different from human beings, but they're sentenced to eternity on this planet. They have the same confusion about… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
If these distracted times prove anything, they prove that the greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions.… — John Cudahy Copy Share Image
What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I loved rain for making home seem home more deeply, and I suspect that is why, from as far back as I… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Never place something that is temporary over the priority of something of permanence.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
I feel like there's a desire for a sense of permanence that is growing in me. — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
