Wayne Thiebaud Quotes

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

Nothing is forever in the Theatre. Whatever it is, it's here, it flares up, burns hot and then its gone.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

Nothing lasts forever. That's the tragedy and the miracle of existence - that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do is make the best of the time we have. And go down shooting, naturally.

Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny that and to deny that is to deny the basic idea of what is human.

Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

Nothing is permanent. Not even the end of the world.

No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.

Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.

A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life.

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

Not one is constant, but everything is changing.

We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we live in. We can't hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self -- because all things come and go. Lacking any permanent satisfaction, we continuously need another injection of fuel, stimulation, reassurance from loved ones, medicine, exercise, and meditation. We are continually driven to become something more, to experience something else.

Even nothing cannot last forever.

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.

The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.