Outlasts Quotes & Sayings

For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the
grimace of love, had cuckolded him. What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust.
Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-grey hair. — William Faulkner

You can seek clarity, you can seek warmth, you can try to make something for lasting. You can pack something in salt so that it's well made and you can hope that it outlasts time. But, ultimately that's not up to you. — Edward Hirsch

Our souls are old,
often used before.
The knife outlasts
the hand that holds it. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one. — Emily Dickinson

A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions. — Cyril Connolly

To spend life for something which outlasts it. — William James

Bone always outlasts feather — Robert Holdstock

What I know are simple truths. I know that the fabric of memory is reinforced by stories, rent by silences. I know that power dreads memory. I know that memory outlasts power's viciousness. I know . . . that a voiceless man is as good as dead. — Okey Ndibe

Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. — Rita Rudner

But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief. — Miriam Toews

That's another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you. — Zia Haider Rahman

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. — Josh Billings

How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter than a self-finisher. The victor in the race is not the one who dashes off swiftest but the one who leads at the finish. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter in life's race. In America we breed many hares but not so many tortoises. — B.C. Forbes

If love is sex
we were in love.
& if love outlasts
the body, then
I am you,
it is fair to say. — Jesse Lee Kercheval

William James said, The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. — Rick Warren

God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That's a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and writing songs that bear truth that outlasts the songs themselves. If I did this in hopes of thunderous applause and piles of cash, I would have quit years ago. But there are moments on the stage when I sense something magical, a connection with the band and the audience, when our stories intersect and suddenly we're wading in an ancient river. Suddenly the song is secondary to the greater story being told through each of us. — Andrew Peterson

Use life to provide something that outlasts it. — B.C. Forbes

Ordinary effort, ordinary result ... Luck is the residue of design. Be steadfast. The anvil outlasts the hammer. — Ethan Hawke

Opinion is a flitting thing
But Truth outlasts the Sun. — Emily Dickinson

Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time. — Dean Koontz

Opinion is a flitting thing, but the truth outlasts the sun. — Emily Dickinson

Man to woman; man to man in letter words will stand
the philosophy of coming in along by the bay of hay
made so sublime be that it outlasts the coming time. — Richard Mc Sweeney

An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest. — Ming-Dao Deng

Things repeat themselves: people, life, death. But here God is the cameraman's boss, Thomas Alva Edison, he who has done the old biblical Lord one better: made sound that outlasts the life of the voice, light that knows no darkness, and now has made people who do not die, whose images shall remain forever on the earth in celluloid. And, from that which he has created, the light and the phonograph and the moving pictures and so much else, he has made what any true God must make here in America. Money. Piles of the stuff" (343-44). — Jonathan Lowy

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments. — Erma Bombeck

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. — Denis Diderot

The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him. — Aneurin Bevan

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn. — Maya Angelou

The difference between a cult and a religion is one outlasts its leader. — Rakesh Khurana

The greatest power in the universe is the power of unity, of oneness. All other powers are secondary. It is the only the only power that outlasts death. Death is the power of separativity; it separates us. — Frederick Lenz

Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands. — Agnes Repplier

The truth wears longer than all the gods; for it is only in the truth's service, and for love of it, that people have overthrown the gods and at last God himself. "The truth" outlasts the downfall of the world of gods, for it is the immortal soul of this transitory world of gods; it is Deity itself. — Max Stirner

Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge ... The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle. — Angela Carter

A human beings' perception of reality emanates from viewing the universe, which is in a constant state of creation and destruction. The universe in which we move and work in outlasts human interests, hopes, expectations, and joy, and all forms of aversion, effort, pain, and humiliation. The world outlasts our dreams, love songs, bouts of inanity and anxiety, it outlast regrets, remorse, and shame. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are not the only kings in science. He also is a king who guides the spirit of his contemporaries by knowledge and creative work, by teaching and research in the field of applied science, and who conquers for science provinces which have only been raided by craftsmen. — Fritz Haber