Impermanence Quotes

“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.”

“I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.”

“An autumn night - don't think your life will last forever.”

“Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation.”

“An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.”

“I set down a beautiful chord on paper... and suddenly it rusts.”

“But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.”

“You're only a success for the moment that you complete a successful act.”

“A thicket of summer grass is all that remains of the dreams of ancient warriors.”

“Another year is gone; a traveller's shade on my head, straw sandals on my feet.”

“A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while.”

“In the cicada's cry, no sign can foretell how soon it must die.”

“All things within this fading world hath end.”

“Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, whose short refresh upon the tender green, cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show, and straight is gone, as it had never been.”

“Everything changes, nothing perishes.”

“Nothing is ever final.”

“Le temps, comme un ruisseau, s'enfuit et nous entraîne.”

“Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.”

“For the nature of all human things is to be mutable.”

“All that is transitory is but a symbol.”