Quotes About Impermanence

Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Like my life, this book has ambiguity. Like my life, this book is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity, as Joanna said.

When you find yourself wanting a better moment -wanting something else in the future- it can be helpful to ask: What will that give me? We think we will finally be happy when that moment arrives. What we discover when we do get what we want is that even that wonderful moment disappears. Life keeps moving on, bringing us a mixture of what we like and don't like. Why not like- love - it all because it won't be here for long, it will never be this way again, and it's all you've got.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El tiempo todo lo da y todo lo quita; todo cambia pero nada perece" (Giordano Bruno)

El arte más perfecto, la música, late, pasa y desaparece.

always in the familiar land of the temporary

Every THING around you, comes and goes, like waves on water. The only "thing" remaining, is YOU - The Ocean

What we call 'I' is just a swinging door, which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

If we gaze at the clouds, then close our eyes for a few minutes, then re-open them and the clouds are different, we don't freak out about it. So, why do we worry when things shift and change in our lives? New day, new sky, every moment too.

Come up here, you dream people. You're cloud-gazing. Have a look at something else than vapor.

Zaten her ÅŸey geçip gider.

All evil is corrective and remedial, and is therefore not permanent. It

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock.

From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

I shall live here in the rains, There in winter, Elsewhere in summer, " muses the fool, Not aware of the nearness of death.

Appreciate what you have today, for tomorrow, it could be gone forever.

… there is no permanence or guarantee in this life.

Do not forget you will never live forever.

The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence.

The land, that thou see now to have root, shall thou see wasted suddenly.

The only permanence is change

The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.

I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.