impermanence Quotes

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

Time, the devourer of all things.

Beauty is a fragile gift.