Michel de Montaigne Quotes

It's a mantra I've lived by for as long as I can remember. Nothing lasts for ever.

There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.

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.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Time takes all and gives all.

Time stays, we go.

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

I envy the dead.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

Time destroys everything.

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me.

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

Time is the devourer of all things.

I am aware of the depths of heartache I'm experiencing but also how foolish it is to think that the things we have are permanent. They're not.

Time is undefeated.

You can't ever go back; life is incredibly short and fragile.

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

Dust, in the end, settles on everything.

Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.