Quotes Tagged With :permanence

Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening....

Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out....

We are born into a realm of constant change. Everything is decaying. We are continually losing all that....

Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that todayis tomorrow's nostalgia.

Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.

Writing has the power of permanence.

Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.

Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead....

Above all human existence requires stability, the permanence of things. The result is an ambivalence....