69 Quotes About Permanence

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

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

A job shouldn’t be a mean of existence but rather, a means of sustenance

Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.

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 and temporary. It means: not according to natural truth, but according to man's desire and the pretense inspired by his fear of dying and his desire for permanence.

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

I had never wanted permanence before, not really, or I had wanted my freedom more; I had accepted that passionate feeling faded, all my earlier experience had confirmed it, when love that seemed certain simply dissolved, on one side or both, for no particular reason, leaving little trace.

All of us, even the sophisticated, yearn for permanence, and to the unsophisticated permanence is the chief excuse for a work of art.

Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.