Quotes About Impermanence

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon. JOEL: I know. CLEMENTINE: What do we do? JOEL: Enjoy it.

Instead of trying to freeze the present moment and hang on to it, we need to remember that life is a process of constantly letting go. The ego wants dependable rituals and people who stay the same. But to be free means that we enjoy this touch, this kiss, this sunrise, and then let it go. This is sometimes described as not letting the ground under your feet get too solid, not grasping for security or predictability.

You know, everything's a ghost story, eventually.

History is a record of destruction. One must always make room for the next ephemeral crystal.

Die down, O dismal day! and let me live. And come, blue deeps! magnificently strewn With colored clouds — large, light, and fugitive — By upper winds through pompous motions blown.

Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long.

We are closer to the end of the world than to that minute that has just passed by, because that is lost forever.

Wir leben in einem Haus, das ständig zusammenzubrechen droht, und können nicht viel mehr unternehmen, als hier einen Balken abzustützen und dort das Dach zu flicken, damit es nicht hineinregnet. Wenn du dann morgens durch die Stube gehst, brichst du schon wieder durch die Dielen.

Our lives are like the wind... or like sounds. We come into being, resonate with each other... Then fade away

There's a Buddhist saying that when your house is done your life is over.

Focus on what you have instead of what you don't have. It's a gorgeous day. I live in the United States of America. I have freedom. I can go to work. Nothing lasts and this, too, will pass." -- Chellie Campbell

What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

The nature of things dictates that we must leave those dear to us. Everything born contains its own cessation

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars

Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later.

It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting. There may be a time when this symbol means something treacherous and terrible, rather than something noble and literate.

Memento Mori' means 'Remember you will die.

It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting.

I can compare the pencil I am using to write these words (and these words, and these and these) to my own life, because it is sometimes sharp and sometimes dull, and because it is getting shorter and shorter the more I use it, and because even when I try to erase things you can still see the marks they left behind.

Castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually ~ JIMI HENDRIX, MUSICIAN

Ah, se se pudesse arrancar o passado com as suas raízes! É impossível, infelizmente, mas pelo menos pode-se fingir esquecer

In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.

Life is an ad hoc affair. It has to be improvised all the time because of the hard fact that everything we do changes what is. This is distressing to people who would like to see things beautifully planned out and settled once and for all. That cannot be.