“But nothing lasts, not even stone, not even despair.”

Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 3, “Long Runout” (p. 127)

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American science fiction writer 1952

Melanie Rawn book Dragon Prince

Source: Dragon Prince

“…even in the folly of youth we know that nothing lasts, but … even in that folly we are afraid that maybe Nothing will last, that maybe Nothing will last forever, and anything is better than Nothing.… So now, as another poet sings, That Fancy passed me by And nothing will remain; which, praise the gods, is a damned lie since, praise, O gods! Nothing cannot remain anywhere since nothing is vacuum and vacuum is paradox and unbearable and we will have nothing of it even if we would, the damned-fool poet's Nothing.”

William Faulkner book 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)

“Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused.
- Hephaestus”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.”

Richard Matheson (1926–2013) American fiction writer

Source: I Am Legend and Other Stories

“Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert.
Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last.
Even the sun goes down.”

Guy Gavriel Kay book The Lions of Al-Rassan

Source: The Lions of Al-Rassan

“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 book To Polybius

From Ad Polybium De Consolatione (Of Consolation, To Polybius), chap. I; translation based on work of Aubrey Stewart
Other works

“Even in the Capitol, there’s nothing to match the magnificence of this old building. But there is no give to the surface—only my flesh yields, my warmth taken. Stone conquers people every time.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Katniss (p. 209)
The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)

“And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.”

Christopher Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“I see only reminders that nothing lasts forever, not even greatness.”
“Some things last.”
I faced him. “Really? And just what would that be?”
“The things that matter.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Kiss of Deception

Source: The Kiss of Deception

“But nothing lasts, not even stone, not even despair.”

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