165 Quotes About Impermanence

The passage of time. That is what is eternal, that is what has no end. And it shows itself only in the effect it has on everything else, so that everything else embodies, in its own impermanence, the one thing that never ends.

Impermanence. It is the nature of all things, especially relationships. They are certainly not a true cause of happiness.

Everything rusts, rots, crumbles, vanishes. The infinite will just take a little bit longer.

We will lost everything that matters, or everything that matters will lose us. It is predestined, the nature of life.

This city was supposed to last forever, but we broke it and laid it in tatters. Let Momus rebuild it, it will happen again, and again. The work of man is destined to perish. Momus said he plans a city that will celebrate mankind forever. You know what? I bet that's what the architects who built this place thought too.

The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid.

If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd look at it with a colder eye. I'd say to myself: You can look at it any time, it doesn't have to be today.

We think of life as solid and are haunted when time tells us it is a fluid. Old Heraclitus couldn't have stepped in the same river once, let alone twice.

Everything is transitory. What are we trying to grasp or hold?? What are we worried about??