Quotes About Impermanence

Enjoy this moment, the present, right now. In the blink of an eye, the world can change, and you may never get your second chance to enjoy such moments again. It's true that Time waits for no one. So, go ahead and enjoy the powerful "Now" right now. Make a great day!

The most interesting aspect of Life is that it always goes on - either with or without you. Life also moves pretty fast, regardless of whether you take nothing away or you put nothing back. The truth remains that empires collapse and civilizations disappear, and yet Life goes on. La Vie Continue!

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Everything's filthy. But you know what? One day it's not gonna be here. So just be glad you know what life is. You're alive. Live.

Life is something you can't borrow and give back; Here today and gone tomorrow...just like that.

All life is temporary Why worry about anything that's only temporary

Everything in life is just for a while.

There will never be a grand unified theory, Gloria. We will never find it. Not in our lifetimes, and it'll be too late.

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

All I'd need is a minute. Not major time. Not the kind of time it takes to compose a symphony. Build a palace. Fight a war. Just a few crappy seconds. The kind of time it takes to tie a shoe. Peel a banana. Blow your nose. But I haven't got it. And I never will.

If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him last.

We never know how long we have. We're never guaranteed tomorrow. I could die right now, right here.

I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can't stop people from dying. You can't stop them from going away. You can't stop yourself from going away either.

I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to.

I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to.

I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can't stop people from dying. You can't stop them from going away. You can't stop yourself from going away either. I know myself well enough to know that no one else can keep you awake or keep you from sleeping.

Like everything else that doesn't last, today is gone now, but it was a pretty good day.

Catherine's face was just like the landscape—shadows and sunshine flitting over it in rapid succession; but the shadows rested longer, and the sunshine was more transient.

but i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell myself. especially the good stuff. although typically you aren't faced with a hard deadline

Love made things feel precarious, and, when you got right down to it, everything in life was tenuous and fleeting and ultimately tragic.

Nobody's death is impending. ...Well technically everyone's death is impending.

Remind thyself that he whom thou lovest is mortal — that what thou lovest is not thine own; it is given thee for the present, not irrevocably nor for ever, but even as a fig or a bunch of grapes at the appointed season of the year