impermanence Quotes

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

One day it will be over, and I don't care.

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

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