impermanence Quotes

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.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth.