“ 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… Alain de Botton
“ Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence. Eric Micha'el Leventhal
“ I promise permanence. I promise persistence. I promise that falling in love was just the beginning for us. Liz Newman
“ 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… Alain de Botton
“ 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… Susan Orlean
“ Stone and sea are deep in lifeTwo unalterable symbols of the worldPermanence at restAnd permanence in motionParticipants in the power that remains Stephen R. Donaldson
“ 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...? Nicole Krauss
“ Above all human existence requires stability, the permanence of things. The result is an ambivalence with respect to all great and violent expenditure of strength; such an expenditure, whether in natu… Georges Bataille
“ But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers. Ernest Hemingway
“ Mr. Codro's destiny is Ptolemaic; in other words, based on fiction. Ptolemaic says it all; it means above all fixed and unchanging, that is to say different from real life which is by nature changing… Alberto Savinio
“ Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many years, his bones will still be lying there, in place, content, patiently waiting, but his fles… Tom Robbins
“ But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it. Jonathan Safran Foer
“ So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. William Shakespeare
“ A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and su… Mark Twain
