Quotes About Impermanence

Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

Nothing is perpetual in this world. Not even your everlasting soul!

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret..

Worldly Life [sansaar] means continuous-flow. The worldly life is that which is always changing [transforming].

A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn't realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is fool.

Memories, like everything else, are momentary.

Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things 'now' or wait until 'then.

We don't own life, we live under a rental agreement which can be terminated at anytime without notice.

Sooner or later we're all gone, so no one bothers getting attached.

Unlike baked beans, loaves of breads, or Fuji apples, books, once consumed, do not disappear.

We come and go just like ripples in a stream.

Your work is to survive. Neither his kind, nor his kind of thinking will survive long. They are the crown of creation, they are ambition fulfilled—they have nowhere more to go. But life is change, that is how it differs from the rocks, change is its very nature. Who, then, were the recent lords of creation, that they should expect to remain unchanged?

I push my ice cream dish away. What's left in the bowl isn't cold and delicious anymore. Now it's just lukewarm, melted soup, because obviously nothing good lasts forever.

Life and summer are fleeting,' sang the bird. 'Snow and dark, and the winter comes. Nothing remains the same.

Never get depressed when things go wrong. And never be over confident when everything goes fine. Always be at the equilibruim position or state. Do remember, nothing is permanent. In other words, nothing lasts forever. Oh! yes, everything under this planet earth can change or vanish within a twinkle of an eye. Thus, you've got to be conscious of that at all times. Emeasoba George

Gloria între patru pereÈ›i întrece slava împ?raÈ›ilor.

Tutte le cose di questo mondo un giorno non ci saranno più, e non importa quanta voglia avremo di andare: non si potrà più andare. E allora in questa vita voglio accumulare tantissimi ricordi.

Quizá sea imposible desde el principio clasificar una existencia como una u otra. La vida no hace más que fluir imparable, guardándonos toda clase de sabores.

Time commences with mutable things; if they perish, it perishes with them.

My moments are numbered; and if I would expose him with my dying sigh, I must not sentimentalize over my own decay.

If I had the knack I'd sing like Cherry flakes falling

Furi ika ya! Kawaza tobikomu Mizo no oto

Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement?

His style was the exact opposite of his technical work; his line was loose, economical, free. And he wanted to capture what he couldn't keep, the fleeting, the transient.