Permanence Quotes

134 Permanence quotes by 119 unique authors

Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by… — Jodi Picoult
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. — William James
Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do… — Sarah Dessen
When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love.… — Emily Giffin
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary. — Wendell Berry
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that… — Stephen R. Donaldson
He waved to the city and said good-bye. The city responded by carrying on the way it always did, traffic moving forward uninterrupted, without slowing,… — Matthew J. Kirby
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 from… — Neil Gaiman
It was a confirmation of a connection that already existed. And it was a bond that extended far beyond the borders of a shared living… — Lisa Kleypas
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality and permanence be… — Sylvia Plath
Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you. — Nora Roberts
Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence. — Barbara Taylor Bradford
I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence. — Evelyn Waugh
A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence. — Timothy Keller
Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls —… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard, as if clinging… — Galway Kinnell
But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away. He… — Gayle Forman
There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a… — George Orwell
There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else,… — Elie Wiesel
The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence. — Unknown Author
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
Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what… — Helen Keller
Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seek permanence. — Unknown Author

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