impermanence Quotes

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

The days of the digital watch are numbered.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

The goal of all life is death.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.