Quotes about Impermanence

And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall pass.

Life is a breath, a passing breeze; a blade of grass, green and vibrant for a time, only to wither, die, and disappear. Soon you will be dead.

She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.

It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.

I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.

Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!

Decay is inherent in all component things! Work out your salvation with diligence.

He that is today a king tomorrow shall die.

From the days of old there is no permanence. The sleeping and the dead, how alike they are, they are like a painted death. What is there between the master and the servant when both have fulfilled their doom?

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.