Isaac Marion Quotes

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

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

In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.

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

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

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.

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things we don't like, they're also not going to last. There has been progress in my lifetime. There are certainly things that are better than when I was young, and there are things that are worse. New York City, it's worse. There's no question.

Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.

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

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.

Nothing is permanent.

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

Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days.

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.

'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.

In the long run we are all dead.