Quotes About Impermanence

We're all dying from the moment we're born. That's all we do our entire lives, is die.

The past is gone, Claire. It's like a sand castle washed away by the waves. We can remember what it looked like, but even if we build it again, it won't be the exactly the same.

It couldn't last forever. It wasn't meant to. So at last I rolled onto my side to face him. I let myself drink in the lines and curves of his face.

Time doesn't obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.

All is flux, nothing stays still, as Heraclitus said. By the time I wrote this, everything has changed in the universe; everything but the taste of the cakes baked at home!

Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream.

Every leaf knows that time is very short. All life must be lived before the autumn comes!

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

O que perdemos acontece depressa.

O mais importante nunca se pode fotografar (...). O que fica sempre, o que nos envolve a alma é o que não pode ser capturado pela moldura. (...) "Este silêncio tão vasto, como o posso fotografar?

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

Nada dura para siempre. Ni la risa, ni la lujuria, ni siquiera la vida en sí. Para siempre, no. Por eso le sacamos el máximo jugo a lo que tenemos.

Dreams have long lives. They are not susceptible to logic; they are dreamed in defiance of reason. And they are immaterial; even as our bodies wither and fail, teaching us the truth of impermanence, our dreams persist, and renew themselves.

hän on vain kuolevainen, aivan kuten me kaikki olemme tähän saakka olleet, tilapäinen molekyylien yhdistelmä. Sanokaamme, että tässä tapauksessa yhdistelmä oli viehättävä, mutta se ei ole sen pysyvämpi kuin huurrekuvio, joka katoaa ilman lämmetessä...

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.

Let it be a reminder that nothing in this world can last." "Even pain," I reply.

But the thing to remember, Jack, is that it's only an echo. It's like a footprint or a shadow. It can't hurt you. All it can do is frighten.

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent

Todos eran efímeros y transitorios, y a la vuelta de cien años no quedaría rastro de ellos sobre las piedras del pueblo. Como ahora no quedaba rastro de los que les habían precedido en una centena de años. Y la mutación se produciría de una manera lenta e imperceptible. Llegarían a desaparecer del mundo todos, absolutamente todos los que ahora poblaban su costra y el mundo no advertiría el cambio. La muerte era lacónica, misteriosa y terrible.

Le dolía que los hechos pasasen con esta facilidad a ser recuerdos; notar la sensación de que nada, nada de lo pasado, podría reproducirse. Era aquella una sensación angustiosa de dependencia, le ponía nervioso la imposibilidad de dar marcha atrás en el reloj del tiempo.

Nothing is immune to Time. Not even eternity.

The only permanent thing is impermanence. This was what I came up understand right then, right there, with the sun on my cheeks and the champagne on my lips. The notion that you could actually know what you want for the rest of your life is illogical and unreasonable. The best you can do is figure out what you want for lunch.