Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be.

I don't want to be something that just comes and goes.

It's a mantra I've lived by for as long as I can remember. Nothing lasts for ever.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

The moment rules over everything.

Time stays, we go.

Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

No man can lose what he never had.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.

Time means nothing to me.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.