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Impermanence Quotes

"This, too, will pass."

"Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent"

"If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?"

"Consider that before long you will be nobody and nowhere, nor will anything you now see exist, nor any of those who are now alive."

"Pale death with impartial step knocks at the poor man's hovel and the prince's doorway"

"To remain stable is to exist on the brink of collapse"

"Alas, how fleeting and enfeebled life passes from the world"

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

"Everything passes if you learn to hold things lightly"

"The wine of this fleeting world caused you and me to forget "

"The only thing that is constant is change"

"Enduring means accepting. Accepting things as they come and pass"

"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."

"Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust."

"The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing."

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