Impermanent Nature Quotes

If something can’t go on forever, it will stop.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

Never has the future become so rapidly the past.

Nothing in the world in perfect. Even a still photograph.

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 things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.

Time hurries by, we're here and gone.

When the ship goes down, the waves very quickly roll over the top of it, and attention shifts elsewhere. It's just the natural order of things in TV - in life - and is as it should be.

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

In football, nothing lasts forever.

Transience is one of the fundamental characteristics both of the human condition and of the political order.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.