Quotes About Impermanence

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal.

Nothing lasts forever in my profession.

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

Everything is fleeting and passing and impermanent in life. Relationships, people, our finite physical forms... We let go of our childhoods, we let go of different parts of our body, we lose elasticity in our skin, and we lose hair and we lose teeth.

The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

I think everything is temporary.

Whatever I own is temporary, since we're only here for a short period of time. It's what we do and produce, it's our actions that will last forever. That's real value.

This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.

Relationships are temporary, and everyone needs to understand that.

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

What we got is NOW, Huck, and now is forever. Until it ain't. So, you can't worry over nothing except putting off the end a your story as long as you can, and finishing it with a bang.

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

Photographs don't discriminate between the living and the dead. In the fragments of time and shards of light that compose them, everyone is equal. Now you see us; now you don't. It doesn't matter whether you look through a camera lens and press the shutter. It doesn't even matter whether you open your eyes or close them. The pictures are always there. And so are the people in them.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Neke stvari traju, pomislila je. Hridi, rijeke, stari natkriveni mostovi. A neke stvari ne traju. Vrele kolovoške no?i i sve što sa sobom nose. Izmi?u nam, pa idemo dalje bez njih, naposljetku umremo i nema nam traga.

We're all dying. That's what defines the condition of living." -Winston S. Churchill

Nada podía durar. Todo tenía que ser fluido: no queríamos realidad, sino posibilidad. No podíamos parar quietos, siempre en movimiento, todo cambiando.

There's never been a time in my life that I wasn't impatient, ecstatic one moment, morbid as hell another, and ready to be reckless almost any time.

No vivas como si fueras a vivir diez mil años. Tu destino pende de un hilo. Mientras estés vivo, hazte bueno. MARCO AURELIO, emperador romano

You making haste haste on decay...