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Impermanence Quotes

"The meaning of life is that it stops"
Franz Kafka
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"We are but a moment's sunlight fading in the grass"
Omar Khayyam
"It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is"
Lana Del Rey
"The world changes and all that once was strong now proves unsure "
J.R.R. Tolkien
"We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye."
Pablo Neruda
"Life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last"
Prince
"There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now."
Angelina Jolie
"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."
Carl Sagan
"Time is the substance I am made of Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire"
Jorge Luis Borges
"Seizing the day, amidst its acceleration and decay"
Walter Benjamin
"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"
William Blake
"There is nothing permanent except change"
Heraclitus
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man"
Heraclitus
"The only thing that is constant is change"
Heraclitus
"I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire I give it to you not that you may remember time but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it."
William Faulkner
"Life is transient and dynamic, moving from one position to another. "
Russell Brand
"The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come"
Dante Alighieri
"Everything passes away suffering pain blood hunger pestilence and the sword it all passes away the suffering passes away love passes but the stars remain."
Mikhail Bulgakov
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