Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“There was a sense of permanence about Egypt; the past was never far from the present.” — McKay Copy Share Image
“Too many constants were changing, belying the illusion of permanence.” — Raymond L. Atkins Copy Share Image
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“A job shouldn’t be a mean of existence but rather, a means of sustenance” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“Never place something that is temporary over the priority of something of permanence.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Being afraid of change is a very common yet illogical thing that humans do. Attachment to the idea of permanence causes suffering. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. — John Cudahy Copy Share Image
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing… — Buzz Aldrin 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
“When the world has always taken from you, when it’s constantly tilted and shifted under your feet, it’s hard to attach permanence… — Leylah Attar Copy Share Image
What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Yes, there is a Government of this changing world. The Government is not in the changing world. It is in the Realm… — Harold Percival Copy Share Image
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the… — Heraclitus 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
My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing… — Simon Winchester 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
“How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called words. We… — john darnton Copy Share Image
Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know… — Bernice Rubens 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
“...if we seek the permanence of an object as something existing from its own side, we discover something inexpressible. If we take… — Zongtrul Losang Tsöndru Copy Share Image
“Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, the're always flaring up and caving in and going… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to the highest form of being. Faith gives stability to our view… — Brooke Westcott Copy Share Image
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. — William James Copy Share Image
Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seek permanence. — Masatoshi Naito Copy Share Image
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
