Marcus Aurelius Quotes

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

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

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

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

All things are subject to decay and change.

No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.

Nothing that is can pause or stay.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

Things may serve long, but not serve ever.

Time bears away all things.

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.

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.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.

All things must pass.

If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.

Nothing is of a permanent nature.

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

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

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

Time stays, we go.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

Time destroys everything.