impermanence Quotes

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.