Quotes About Impermanence

Sunrise doesn't last all morning, a cloudburst doesn't last all day, seems my love is up and has left you with no warning. It's not always going to be this grey. All things must pass, all things must pass away.

I don't like when people compliment my looks." "How come?" "I don't know," she said. And then, "Because it reminds me that I'm going to die. If someone says I have nice teeth, I think, One day they'll rot. If they say I have nice hair, I think about it falling out by the fistful.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

Touch everything lightly, enjoy it while it is within your reach, and do not regret it when it is gone, since that is the nature of things.

He is reminding us that—as he puts it elsewhere—everything we have is actually "on loan" from the universe, and the right attitude is to enjoy it while we have it and relinquish it when it is gone. Indeed, precisely because it will one day be gone, it is all the more precious while we have it.

reflexione, una vez más, sobre aquella vieja idea de los efectos del tiempo, ese tiempo inexorable que a nosotros nos destruye y que a las obras de arte las vuelve infinitamente más hermosas.

In this world of ours, We eat only to cast out, Sleep only to wake, And what comes after all that Is simply to die at last.

In the cicada's cry There's no sign that can foretell How soon it must die.

One after another In silent succession fall The flowers of yellow rose - The roar of tumbling water.

But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you're in.

We blow out a soap-bubble as long and as large as possible, although with the perfect certainty that it will burst." In this view, happiness is impossible, because of all these goals. Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.

But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you're in.

There is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you're in.

As Emily Dickinson, eternally great poet and occasionally anxious agoraphobe, said: "That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

They die, and so they have impatience.

There is nothing permanent about being a writer.

Everything comes to pass, nothing comes to stay.

Up until this point, we have been observing the impermanent, unsatisfactory, or selfless nature of each object as it arose to consciousness.

Dividimos el mundo entero en "deseable" e "indeseable", concedemos permanencia a lo que es efímero y percibimos como cualidades autónomas lo que en realidad es una red infinita de relaciones que cambian sin cesar.

Chaque instant de vie est précieux car la mort peut survenir à tout moment.

I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep ... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass.

Hiljadu ne?ijih sre?nih ?asaka bi?e kao ovaj, ali ovaj nikada više. Hiljadu tu?ih ljubavi bi?e kao ova, ali ova nikada više. Nikada: jedina kona?nost.

The present could never be held, it did not allow it.

Ce se întâmpl? în Belzhar, orice ar fi, nu las? nicio urm? în lumea real?. Nicio umbr?, niciun fel de reziduu.