Quotes About Impermanence

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast.

We recognise that, with time, every human being will cease being, will only have been. And so we seek to resist time. We rebel against it. We are drawn like lovers to the unreachable past, to imagined memories, to nostalgia.

Where I come from, the family, upbringing, whatever I have seen in life, I know for sure that nothing is permanent.

I have seen lot of ups and downs in life; I have realised that nothing is permanent in life.

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.

The strange thing about living somewhere for a couple of years and then moving on and not returning is that those locations become ghosts of themselves in your mind.

I decided to let it go. The way I saw it,everything is temporary. Even the biggest stars die. Feelings are more temporary than most things. You just have to wait for them to pass.

Write everything down because it's all very fleeting.

I remember wishing the moment would hold forever; that we could be fixed there, laughing and irredescent... Then I got panicky because I knew it would pass; that it was passing already.

No blessing lasts forever

Go into everything thinking it may be temporary.

Bubbles are always new; you just can't find an old bubble.

The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

All things change; nothing perishes.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

what we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow

Omnia mutantur; nihil interit