Impermanence Quotes

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet" "He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise" "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." "The meaning of life is that it stops" "If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever" "To remain stable is to exist on the brink of collapse" "The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing." "The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless." "The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains" "Every man must die" "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles" "Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes." "Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal." "Be sure that someday, pretty soon, you'll say goodbye to the one you call lover. Меняться означает меняться / It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion / It will all be over before you know it. Don't take life too seriously" "Enduring means accepting. Accepting things as they come and pass" "Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you" "If you find yourself half naked and barefoot in the frosty grass, hearing, again, the earth’s great sonorous moan that says you are the air of the now and gone, that says all you love will turn into peace" "Nothing ends nicely, that’s why it ends." "In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time." "Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust."