Quotes About Impermanence

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.

All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.

I am at this instant in a white void awaiting the next instant. Measuring time is just a working hypothesis. But whatever exists is perishable and this forces us to measure immutable and permanent time. It never began and never will end. Never.

So i dedicate this thing here to old Schu­mann and his sweet Clara who today alas are bones. I dedicate it to the very crimson color scarlet like my blood of a man in his prime and so I dedicate it to my blood. I dedicate it above all to the gnomes, dwarfs, sylphs, and nymphs who inhabit my life. I dedicate it to the memory of my former poverty, when everything was more sober and dignified and I had never eaten lobster.

Everything—absolutely everything—that comes into existence will pass away.

Through the years, people of the world (young and old) build castles in the sands. Grains of different styles, shapes and sizes representing a common notion... beauty and harmony.

Tomorrow is promised to no one.

Nothing can save us. All this sweetness dies and rots.

Ninguém se pode banhar duas vezes no mesmo rio.

You can never step into the same river twice; for new waters are always flowing on to you.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

You can never step into the same river for new waters are always flowing on to you.

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Everything flows, nothing stands still.

History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Everything flows and nothing stays.

Everything changes and nothing stands still.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Nada é permanente, excepto a mudança.

You can not step into the same river twice.