
„Nothing mortals make lasts; nothing the gods make endures forever.“
— Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia
An unnamed goddess
The Queen of Attolia (2000)
„Nothing mortals make lasts; nothing the gods make endures forever.“
— Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia
An unnamed goddess
The Queen of Attolia (2000)
„Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused.
- Hephaestus“
— Rick Riordan, buch The Lost Hero
Quelle: The Lost Hero
— Robertson Davies Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist 1913 - 1995
Reading (1990)
„And you know, these things don't last forever.'
I know, Mandy. Nothing does.'
That's the spirit.“
— Scott Westerfeld, buch So Yesterday
Quelle: So Yesterday
„Nothing lasts forever, few things even last for long: all are susceptible of decay in one way or another; moreover all that begins also ends.“
Nihil perpetuum, pauca diuturna sunt; aliud alio modo fragile est, rerum exitus variantur, ceterum quicquid coepit et desinit.
— Seneca the Younger, buch To Polybius
From Ad Polybium De Consolatione (Of Consolation, To Polybius), chap. I; translation based on work of Aubrey Stewart
Other works
— Sam Savage, buch Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
Quelle: Firmin
„No blessing lasts forever.“
Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.
— Plautus, Curculio
Curculio, Act I, scene 3, line 32
Curculio (The Weevil)
„The sadness will last forever.“
— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890
Attributed to Vincent, as quoted by Theo van gogh in his letter from Paris, to Elisabeth van Gogh, 5 August 1890 http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/21/etc-Theo-Lies.htm
Some of the last words Vincent said to Theo, while dying
1890s
— Jim Stanford Canadian economist 1961
Part 1, Chapter 3, Economic History, p. 43
Economics For Everyone (2008)
— William Faulkner, buch The Town
Gavin Stevens in Ch. 8
The two lines quoted — not altogether accurately — are from A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad (1896), XVIII:<p>And now the fancy passes by
And nothing will remain.
The Town (1957)
„Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.“
— Lance Armstrong, buch Every Second Counts
Quelle: Every Second Counts
„But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever…“
— David Zindell American writer 1952
Quelle: The Wild (1995), p. 42
„Blooms in its day and may not last forever.“
— Hermann Hesse, buch Das Glasperlenspiel
The Glass Bead Game (1943)
„The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did.“
— Jack Vance, buch The Last Castle
Quelle: The Last Castle (1966), Chapter 2, section 1