Life's Impermanence Quotes

Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.

In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter" -The Brightest Star in the Sky.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his own death would in the first place mean that of the whole world?

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously

I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received. I have only just learned that truth.

Knowledge of death is the beginning of wisdom.

A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.

I'm dying, but so are you

Our lives disappear, even as we live them.

I have come to know that it [death] is an important thing to keep in mind - not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die I can ever truly begin to live.

Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.

Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity's worth to the last penny; and the poor stand outside the gate and watch with hungry eyes the glint of jewels in the warm air. Then comes the lackey Death, and he says: "Madam and my Master, your carriage waits." So they go away into the dark in the carriage of the black plumes, and the dancing continues.

To really appreciate life you got to know you're going to die.

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.