Denis Diderot Quotes

This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.

Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.

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

Nothing is permanent. Not even the end of the world.

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.

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.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.

Time destroys everything.

Time is not kind to everything.

The present will not long endure.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.

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.

The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.

I know that everything comes to an end. Everything is a phase.