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Quotes About Impermanence

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
~ Phyllis Bottome
In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.
~ Richard Paul Evans
the only thing you can be sure of in this life is that sooner or later everything goes wrong.
~ Richard Phillips
the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.
~ Rilke-Gesellschaft
When it don't rain, the roof don't leak; when it rains, I can't fix it nohow.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Worse yet, scientific models, like people and cattle and insect species and mountains and all things known, have a lifespan. Mountains may survive geological eras, but scientific maps, like people and birds, have short lives. None has ever lasted more than a few hundred years, at present. To believe in any such mask with the fervor of Gross and Levitt contradicts all known facts of scientific history. Every theory they worship will someday get junked.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
~ Robert Burns
Everything in life was transitory, enjoy the moment.
~ Robert Ferrigno
Nothing gold can stay.
~ Robert Frost
So dawn goes down to day/ nothing gold can stay.
~ Robert Frost
So dawn goes to day Nothing gold can stay
~ Robert Frost
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
~ Robert Fulghum
Time, the destroyer of all things beautiful
~ Kenneth Grahame
Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could - a look, a whisper, a moan- to salvage from perishing, to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Regarding Titanic) Sometimes Zalmai would saunter in and watch this game. What did he get to be, he asked. You can be the iceberg, said Aziza.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom the flowers. Not forever reigneth joy, Sets the sun on days of bliss, Friendships not forever last, They know not life, who know not this.
~ Khushwant Singh
Live now. Every day with a friend is a gift. Nothing lasts forever. Even mountains wash to the sea. She
~ Kim Heacox
for we are all definitely always falling apart, and not massively entrenched in anything at all.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Reality itself is mortal
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Someone should enjoy it," Ann said. When she was angry or bitter her voice became flat and distant, almost as if she were being matter-of-fact. "It won't be here long.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
But things change as time passes; nothing lasts, not even stone, not even happiness.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.
~ Gautama Buddha
But, alas! in this world nothing lasts forever. Even the moon is not always perfect in shape, but loses its roundness with time, and flowers bloom and then fade.
~ Yei Theodora Ozaki
Neden her ÅŸeyi bozmaya, her ÅŸeyi deÄŸiÅŸtirmeye, her ÅŸeyi geçiciliÄŸe havale etmeye vazifelendirilmiÅŸiz böyle? Bu zevksiz görev, bütün dünyan?n 'hayat' diye tan?mlad??? ÅŸey miydi?
~ Yukio MiÅŸima