43 quotes
“All is change; all yields its place and goes.”
— Euripides
“The present life of man upon earth, O king, seems to me like the swift flight of a sparrow through a banqueting hall in winter.”
— Bede
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”
— Heraclitus
“Nothing is forever except change.”
— Buddha
“The world of dew is a world of dew, and yet, and yet.”
— Kobayashi Issa
“Feelings are just visitors let them come and go”
— Mooji
“There is nothing permanent except change.”
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“Life doesnt last art doesnt last it doesnt matter”
— Eva Hesse
“The rain has stopped the clouds have drifted away and the weather is clear again”
— Ryokan
“Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruin.”
— Ovid
“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.”
— Pema Chodron
“Let everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is final”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”
“The world is a traveller's inn, not his dwelling place.”
— Rumi
“What is scattered gathers. What was gathered blows away.”
“Nothing lasts nothing is finished and nothing is perfect”
— Wabi Sabi Proverb
“The only thing that is constant is change.”
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
— Emily Dickinson
“Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.”
“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not in the clefts of the mountains is there known a spot where, having entered, death could overcome one.”
— Dhammapada
“The world is a traveller's inn, not an abode.”
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“All is flux, nothing stays still.”
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place.”
“In this world nothing lasts forever; the blossoms scatter, the moon wanes.”
— Murasaki Shikibu
“One cannot step twice in the same river.”
“Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.”
— Unknown
“In this world nothing is certain people and things are always changing”
“Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.”
— Shunryu Suzuki
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