Joe Henderson Quotes

Nothing is forever, but history is forever.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

Time marks us while we are marking time.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

Governments come and go, but civilizations linger on.

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.

It's our vanity that makes us think that what forms part of our world today must be stable and secure.

Time moves on for everyone.

It's the easiest thing in the world to assume that what seems so obvious at one moment in time is a hard, perpetual fact of life.

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

Some things don't last forever, but some things do.

Nothing is ours except time.

You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.

When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.