Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Even nothing cannot last forever.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

The worldly stuff is not always going to be there and it could be taken away at any moment.

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.

I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.

Everything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile.

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.

Nothing gold can stay.

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.

Nothing lasts forever

Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.

I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, having signed on the dotted line, she'll be different. She'll understand what I already know- that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between you teeth.

Everything transitory is but an image.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

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

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

All things are only transitory.

'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.