Quotes about Impermanence

Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.

Everything in life is just for a while.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment.

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.

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, And this too, shall pass away. How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

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.

You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.