Quotes About Impermanence

There are no sweeter words than this: nothing lasts forever.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Everything transitory is but an image.

All things transient are but a parable.

I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.

Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.

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.

In life, and in sports, we all know that nothing lasts forever.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

Nothing gold can stay.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway

... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

For one thing we may be grateful: this life is not eternal.