Quotes about Impermanence
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
— John Calvin
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.
— Samuel Johnson
Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.
— Marcus Aurelius
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Nothing works perfectly. The weather doesn't work perfectly. Because of sin in the world, nothing works perfectly. But in spite of that we can find comfort. We can find strength.
— Rick Warren
O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
— Thomas a Kempis
They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment.
— Hebrews 1:11
Everything in life is just for a while.
— Philip K. Dick
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.
— Marcus Aurelius
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.
— Andy Andrews
How quickly all things disappear, in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them;
— Marcus Aurelius
Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
— Job 14:2