Quotes Tagged With :permanence

If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd look....

For, dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true?Cling to it long enough, and not....

When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you....

But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and....

that was bad; i shouldn't have done thatto prevent you from entering a catatonic statei am going to maintain....

Writing has the power of permanence.

Something always attracts us towards the ruins, because ruins remind us our fundamental problem: The....

To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life,....

Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have....

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.