Chuck Pagano Quotes

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

The present will not long endure.

This world's a bubble.

To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.

It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that.

Sometimes you think things are going to be forever, and then... of course, they're not.

I do have in the back of my head that you never know how long it lasts.

We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as situated in a vague and remote expanse of time; it does not occur to us that it can have any connexion with the day that has already dawned and can mean that death -- or its first assault and partial possession of us, after which it will never leave hold of us again -- may occur this very afternoon, so far from uncertain, this afternoon whose time-table, hour by hour, has been settled in advance.

Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight-behind the veil of glittering constellations.

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

Why make plans? The sun might well go out tomorrow.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

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

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.