Dee Hock Quotes

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.

Tomorrow is shallow, but today is as deep as truth.

Life is like this: things come and go.

I think everything is temporary.

We look at mountains and call them eternal, and they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, starts fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.

Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.

Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.

Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.

Time is that in which all things pass away.

All but God is changing day by day.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

All things are only transitory.

Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.