Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Things may serve long, but not serve ever.

Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.

The morning Sunne never lasts a day.

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru

Nothing is of a permanent nature.

All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.

Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused. - Hephaestus

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.

What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.

All things are only transitory.

Time destroys everything.

Time is not kind to everything.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

Nothing cannot exist forever.

Time is the devourer of all things.

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

The Flower that once has blown forever dies.