impermanence Quotes

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.