Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that freedom remains intact: marriage means that freedom has been dropped. You have bargained for permanence, for security, and you have paid for it with freedom.
A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.
God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.
Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
I feel like there's a desire for a sense of permanence that is growing in me.
The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.
A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.
The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict.
Women can do nothing that has permanence.
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
You can endure change by pondering His permanence.
Things have a terrible permanence when people die.
The Bible is the best of books, and I wish it were in the hands of every one. It is indispensable to the safety and permanence of our institutions. A free government can not exist without religion and morals, and there cannot be morals without religion. Especially should the Bible be placed in the hands of the young. It is the best school book in the world. I would that all our people were brought up under the influence of that holy book.
The imagination. . . that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.
The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.
Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
