Quotes About Impermanence

This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky. Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

El mundo es un barco que pasa temporalmente, sin realizar un viaje completo.

What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?

Cattle and fat sheep can all be had for the raiding, tripods for the trading, and tawny headed stallions. But a mans's lifebreath cannot come back again- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish

As the wind scatters leaves upon the earth, such is the race of men

Mister. Nothing is forever. Only death is permanent. Nothing is forever except what you did to me.

He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.

since coming home, her life had stood still and a fine day like this made her impatient, almost desperate.

Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.

Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

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The more you dream of one particular and pleasing thing, Ralata, the quicker it palls. The edges get worn down, the lustre fades. To leave such obsessions behind, dream of them often.

Here be the mountains vanishing in the mists, never to return. Here be the rivers sinking into the sands, and these are the sands that never rest. And the sky that looks down and sees nothing. Here, aye, is the world behind me, for I was never much of a map-maker, never much the surveyor of deeds.

Everything breaks." "Aye, lad. Everything breaks." "You could do it." "Do what?" "Break that sword." "No. I can't." "Everything breaks!" "Including people, lad.

Civilisation isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily. It vanishes far more quickly than he even would have thought possible".

Nothing could be more perfect than this moment, but all too soon it is gone, burning out among the stars.

There have been many empires. None last forever.