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Quotes About Impermanence

The essence of what makes life beautiful is the fact that it can go away.
~ Carlos Mencia
Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.
~ Russell Brand
There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...
~ James Salter
The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.
~ Joe Meno
That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.
~ Jonathan Tropper
Life as we know it is a death sentence.
~ Joseph Curiale
All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.
~ Marcel Proust
Life is too short because we die.
~ Christopher Locke
You are permanent, but this life is not.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
~ Cynthia Ozick
The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
~ Robert E. Howard
I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute
~ A.S. King
Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
~ Brit Marling
Every life is finite, Will.
~ Cassandra Clare
Time fleeth on, Youth soon is gone, Naught earthly may abide; Life seemeth fast, But may not last-- It runs as runs the time.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland
All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.
~ Christopher Pike
Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,Before we too into the Dust descend;Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie,Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and—sans End!
~ Edward Fitzgerald
Los seres humanos y sus órdenes sociales son intrínsecamente imperfectos, por suerte. En un mundo en constante cambio, necesitamos la flexibilidad que solo la imperfección proporciona.
~ Edward O. Wilson
Our author envisions reality in terms of an eternal realm presently invisible to our earthly senses, and a temporary realm we can now see and touch but that will soon pass away.
~ Edward William Fudge
An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
~ Edwin Booth
Once broken, despite fixing does not stay the original.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - it is not yet painting Spring.
~ Eihei Dogen