Quotes About Impermanence

Old England is an imaginary place, a landscape built from words, woodcuts, films, paintings, picturesque engravings. It is a place imagined by people, and people do not live very long or look very hard. We are very bad at scale. The things that live in the soil are too small to care about; climate change too large to imagine.

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

E in qualsiasi città ci fermiamo sono le case cui è troppo tardi per tornare i giardini in cui è troppo tardi per trascorrere una notte di luna e le donne che è troppo tardi per amare a tormentarci con la loro impalpabile presenza.

Kingdoms are but cares,State is devoid of stay;Riches are ready snares,And hasten to decay.

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

When a man dies he kicks the dust.

O homem é imortal, a sua salvação é do além», afirmou. «O Estado carece de imortalidade, a sua salvação é de agora ou nunca.»

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

omul este ca un fluture: se înc?lzeÈ™te la soarele favorurilor, iar la prima adiere mai rece piere... chiar dac? n-ar vrea!

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

If you once realize that to-morrow, if not to-day, you will die and nothing will be left of you, everything becomes insignificant!

All at once I felt clearly and calmly that the feeling of that time had gone never to return, like the time itself, and that to bring it back now would be not only impossible, but painful and forced.

Yes, life was there and now it's going, going, and I can't hold onto it.

Look at the sky, and at the earth, and think that all things pass. All of the mountains and rivers you see, and all the forms of life, and all creations of nature, all pass. Then you will understand the truth; you will see what remains, what does not pass. —BUDDHIST WISDOM

When my heart is broken as usual over someone's evanescent beauty and design after design they fade like kingdoms with no writing

Even evils are transitory. So where to battle?

You can't put a dent in impermanence.

When you look at my life, you can go back to the late 1930s, what I saw was, first of all, Hitler, he was going to live forever. Mussolini was in for 10,000 years. You had the Soviet Union, which was, by definition, going to last forever. There was the British empire -- nobody imagined it could come to an end. So why should one believe in any kind of permanence?

Everything changes." It's not hard to understand this teaching as an intellectual fact; we learn it naturally by living it. But emotionally this teaching means that everything we love and care about—including our family, friends, and even our precious self—will change, transform, and eventually pass away.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.