Quotes About Impermanence

Nature is always pulling the rug out from under our pompous ideals.

It's something that never comes off, no matter how much you might want it to." "You're comparing love to a…stain?" He leans so far back in his seat that the front legs of his chair scrape off the floor. He looks very satisfied, with the crepe or with himself, I'm not sure. "Exactly.

And they seem to forget that you are a mere mortal; flesh and bone, bruisable and scare-able.

nothing that beautiful lasts forever.

Limpiar la pizarra? Siento como si mi pizarra está demasiado limpia, perpetuamente vacía. Lo que quiero es lo opuesto: un garabato desordenado, constelaciones de cosas indelebles que no puedan ser lavadas jamás

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve."—Lao-Tzu.

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

Today is cold. Tomorrow, heat will come. Flowers bloom, then wither. Those we love, we can grow to hate. And life...life can be perfect one minute and in shambles the next.

What is written can be erased, alas.

Nothing that is will always be.- Open Mic Singer

There's a moment coming. It's not here yet. It's still on the way. It's in the future. It hasn't arrived. Here it comes. Here it is It's gone.

Choreography is like cooking or gardening. Not like painting because painting stays. Dancing disintegrates. Like a garden. Lots of roses come up, and in the evening they're gone.

Rome wasn't planned, and neither did it just happen.

La felicità assomiglia a delle vacanze in riva al mare in un'estate piovosa, dove solo l'ultima giornata è stata bella, e questo è sufficiente per rimpiangerle.

Human life is short, we don't exist all that much. A pale brief flicker in the dark.

The only trouble is," said the Sister happily, "that every once in a while you have a very unusual one and you never forget it, but you never have it again either. I had one when I was nine—" Her expression suddenly lost its excitement and she said, "It's a good thing. It teaches you the evanescence of things of the world.

la caída de un imperio es un suceso colosal, y no se combate con facilidad. Viene dictada por el crecimiento de la burocracia, la asfixia de la iniciativa, la esclerosis del sistema de castas, la condena de toda curiosidad...

Even eternity doesn't last forever

La vida no es una foto, en que uno ordena las cosas para que se vean bien y luego fija la imagen para la posteridad; es un proceso sucio, desordenado, rápido, lleno de imprevistos. Lo único seguro es que todo cambia.

Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway?

Nada es para siempre, hija, sólo la muerte.

Se consideraba un transeúnte en este mundo, un viajero de paso que no se detenía a profundizar en nada excepto el arte, que le ofrecía permanencia.

Truth is short-lived, watered down by torrents of rain.

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.