Famous quotes containing the words permanent and/or body:
“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“See an old unhappy bull,
Sick in soul and body both,
Slouching in the undergrowth
Of the forest beautiful,”
—Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871–1962)