Henry Martyn Quotes

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

Anything you loved, however intensely, becomes mortifying the moment you cease to love it.

Relationships are temporary, and everyone needs to understand that.

So we're in this process of letting go of our own attachments to our physical forms and to the people we love, and... basically everything. Life is like this one big process of letting go.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.

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

The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.

There's no such thing as forever.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.

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

What falls away is always. And is near.

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

Everything comes out of nothingness and goes back into nothingness. Hence there is no need for attachment, because attachment will bring misery. Soon it will be gone. The flower that has blossomed in the morning, by the evening will be gone. Don't get attached; otherwise in the evening there will be misery. Then there will be tears, then you will miss the flower. Enjoy while it is. But remember, it has come out of nothing, and it will go back to nothing. And the same is true about everything, even about people.

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.

I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.

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

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

Nothing is of a permanent nature.

The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving.