Quotes of Impermanence - somelinesforyou

“ The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, there isn't any there there. ”

- Gertrude Stein

“ All things are subject to change, and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.). ”

- Unknown

“ If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself. ”

- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“ The more things change, the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.). ”

- Alphonse Karr

“ You can't step into the same river twice. ”

- Heraclitus

“ What is actual is actual only for one time, and only for one place. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on. ”

- Noel Coward

“ All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another. ”

- Anatole France

“ I can generally bear the separation, but I don't like the leave-taking. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day, but no change at all ivry fifty years. ”

- Finley Peter Dunne

“ Oh, this is the joy of the rose: / That it blows, / And goes. ”

- Willa Cather

“ Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. ”

- Malcolm Muggeridge

“ So much of this world is based on illusion, temporariness, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real. ”

- Gillian Anderson

“ A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition. ”

- Juan Ramón Jiménez

“ A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition. ”

- Juan Ramテウn Jimテゥnez

“ Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. ”

- Robert Frost

“ The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty. ”

- Thomas Hood

“ There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth…lust. When he is strong…quarrelsomeness. When he is old…covetousness. ”

- Confucius

“ Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ”

- Lillian Dickson

“ Injustice never rules forever. ”

- Seneca

“ There is nothing permanent except change. ”

- Heraclitus

“ Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change. ”

- Ramsay Clark

“ Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. ”

- Richard Hooker

“ Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet. ”

- Myrtle Reed

“ Impermanence is the law of the universe. ”

- Carlene Hatcher Polite

“ We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama. ”

- Adrienne Rich

“ In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion. ”

- John Dewey

“ A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. ”

- Vaclav Havel
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