Stephen R. Donaldson Quote

Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.

Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Miracles have a higher percentage of being permanent than magical solutions.

Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.

I promise permanence. I promise persistence. I promise that falling in love was just the beginning for us.

What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any pos...

I, too, had set out to be remembered. I had wanted to create something permanent in my life- some proof that everything in its way mattered, that working hard mattered, that feeling things mattered, t...

Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where we...

Why do people always have to be named after dead people? If they had to be named after anything at all, why can't it be things, which have more permanence, like the sky or the sea, or even ideas...?