Sarah Dessen Quotes

Everything you gather is just one that you can lose.

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.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

If you acquire things, you have to let them go.

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.

Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.

Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.

We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is ours, off limits to others. We’re willing to attack if others threaten to hurt it. Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea.

No man can lose what he never had.

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.

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

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

So how can you lose what you've never owned?

That's the nature of this business. Something that took ten years to make can crumble in an instant. It could be snatched away from you at any moment.

Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.

Relationships are temporary, and everyone needs to understand that.

Let's be honest: material comes and goes.

Dreams rise like the sun and set like the sun: One minute, it is high and bright; the next minute, you might lose it.

Sometimes you think things are going to be forever, and then... of course, they're not.

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

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.

Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature of life, then clinging is stupidity, because your clinging is not going to change the law of life. Your clinging is only going to make you miserable. Things are bound to change; whether you cling or not does not matter. If you cling you become miserable: you cling and they change, you feel frustrated. If you don't cling they still change, but then there is no frustration because you were perfectly aware that they are bound to change. This is how things are, this is the suchness of life.

I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.

It can be here today and gone tomorrow.