impermanence Quotes

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.