Quotes About Impermanence

Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

Life is uncertain; death is certain.

How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.

In life beauty perishes, but not in art.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.

I thought about my beautiful dreams and wondered if they would drift away just like those lovely soap bubbles.

when I die the wind will still blow and the stars still shine, for the place I occupy on earth is no more permanent than the water I now make

LIFE HAS NO PLOT, WHY MUST FILMS OR FICTION?

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually.

And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.

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

It's the process of making-do, of the life I've lived between breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life worth living. I could not bear a life with everything perfect.

No real da vida, as coisas acabam com menos formato, nem acabam. Melhor assim. Pelejar por exato, dá erro contra a gente. Não se queira. Viver é muito perigoso...

Ah, como passam as coisas deste mundo, nada do que se contrói é perene, nada do que se faz é bem lembrado além de seu tempinho, nada fica como está, nunca se volta, nunca se volta.

Ah, como passas as coisas deste mundo, nada do que se constrói é perene, nada do que se faz é bem lembrado além de seu tempinho, nada fica como está, nunca se volta, nunca se volta.?

In the face of impermanence and death, it takes courage to love the things of this world and to believe that praising them is our noblest calling.

Everything comes to an end, reader. It is an old truism to which may be added that not everything that lasts, lasts for long. This latter part is not readily admitted; on the contrary the idea that an air castle lasts longer than the very air of which it is made is hard to get out of a person's head, and this is fortunate, otherwise the custom of making those almost eternal constructions might be lost.

Death waits for us all. Nothing's forever. Life's about making the best of what you find along the way. A man who's not content with what he's got, well, more than likely he won't be content with what he hasn't.