Quotes about Permanence
The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
- Anonymous
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
- Anonymous
What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased.
- Anonymous
His name shall endure for ever.
- Anonymous
The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.
- Frank Herbert
If you think you own something, that's like walking on quicksand.
- Frank Herbert
Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
- Madeleine L'Engle
All earthly cities are vulnerable. Men build them and men destroy them. At the same time there is a City of God which men did not build and cannot destroy and which is everlasting.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Yesternight the sun went hence,And yet is here today.
- John Donne
Only our love hath no decay; This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
- John Donne
Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life, and eternity. (Elegie III: Change)
- John Donne
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.
- George Eliot