Adam Ferrara Quotes

Everything is fleeting and passing and impermanent in life. Relationships, people, our finite physical forms... We let go of our childhoods, we let go of different parts of our body, we lose elasticity in our skin, and we lose hair and we lose teeth.

The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

Time is not kind to everything.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

What falls away is always. And is near.

The fascinating thing about human beings is that they don't last, and everything eventuates, and everything is very, very brief. And even if you do manage to look reasonably well as you age, unfortunately you are attacked at every level by illness and so forth. It's a fact of life.

It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.

Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.

...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us.