Quotes About Impermanence

Everyone dies young.

In life, nobody gets out alive.

[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]

We are bound to expireEven metal which is sturdiest, Rusts.Even oxygen, the breath of life, Soon transpires.8/6/11 -Luis Medina

Everything that is born will eventually die and everything that is created will eventually be destroyed.

One Must Always Remember That Birth, Old Age, Disease And Death Comes At Any Moment In Regardless Of Whom We Are Or What We Have In Forms Of Material Possession.

It's good to remember…So you know you need to do now, So you know that you ain't got forever just right now, Good to remember death man.

Death twitches my ear. "Live " he says "I am coming".

All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons monarchs must obey.

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

Everything passes everything wears out everything breaks.(Tout passe tout lasse tout casse.)

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.

To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.

Words have a longevity that I do not have.

I'm hyper-focused on loss. But I know it's just the impermanence of being here.

It's a mantra I've lived by for as long as I can remember. Nothing lasts for ever.

When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.

What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?

Sometimes I try to imagine what happens to characters in books - after the books finish, I mean.