Impermanence Quotes - Page 6

• I'll sleep well tonight

  Henry Ford

  Death, Sleep, Dying

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• Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days.

  Philip Whalen

  Death, Years, Tree

  Philip Whalen, Michael Rothenberg (2007). “The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen”, p.415, Wesleyan University Press

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• I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

  Edward Abbey

  Death, Believe, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and say, 'I will not let go. I do not accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it...forever. Or at least I'm going to try.'

  Jason Silva

  Letting Go, Thinking, Forever

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• Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

  William Blake

  Death, Dying, Bones

  William Blake, “Proverbs Of Hell (Excerpt From The Marriage Of Heaven And H”

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• Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Fall, Farewell

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

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• If dislocation is a permanent state, I want to try and explore the possibility of temporary impermanence. If dislocation is a tatty dress from the thrift store, perhaps the solution is not to cast it aside. If dislocation is a tatty dress, perhaps the only solution is to mend it, scent it and wear it until everything about it signifies newness, something close to the perpetual promise of a fresh start.

  Diriye Osman

  Promise, Trying, Dresses

  "Is Dislocation a Permanent State?" by Diriye Osman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2015.

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• With every glance I take in the 'negative-positive' of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted, I trust my inner eye, the heart. Everything, absolutely everything, becomes visible. Appearances, disappearances, nothing seems of secondary importance to me.

  Christophe Agou

  Heart, Eye, Glowing

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• Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in dust.

  Violet Fane

  Death, Dust, Justice

  Violet Fane (1880). “Collected Verses”

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• The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil which must one day be exhausted, the movies which fill America's theatres for six months and are forgotten. Many of its houses--especially the grander ones--have a curiously disturbing atmosphere, a kind of psychological dankness which smells of anxiety, overdrafts, uneasy lust, whisky, divorce and lies.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Lying, Divorce, Cities

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• There is a kind of immortality in every garden.

  Gladys Taber

  Death, Time, Garden

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• Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year.

  Billy Cannon

  Death, Years, Getting Older

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• In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Death, Garden, Dying

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• In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.

  Sam Llewellyn

  Death, Sex, Garden

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• The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets. It's just we thought they said dead when they said bread.

  John Cage

  Death, Food, Justice

  "A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings".

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• Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning,
  We will come back to earth some fragrant night,
  And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending
  Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white.
  We will come down at night to these resounding beaches
  And the long gentle thunder of the sea,
  Here for a single hour in the wide starlight
  We shall be happy, for the dead are free.

  Sara Teasdale

  Death, Beach, Night

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.

  Ouida

  Death, Animal, Agony

  Ouida (1901). “Critical Studies”

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• I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Nature, Garden

  Essais bk. 1, ch. 20 (1580)

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• The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a process of flinging bright balloons in the path of the hurricane, a casting of priceless petals upon the rushing surface of a stream.

  Vera Brittain

  Lying, Rushing, Giving

  Vera Brittain (2012). “Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby”, p.229, Hachette UK

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• Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.

  John Gould Fletcher

  Life, Death, Stars

  John Gould Fletcher, Lucas Carpenter, Leighton Rudolph (1988). “Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher”, p.172, University of Arkansas Press

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• In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would.

  Ursula Bloom

  Looks, Goes On, Ifs

  Ursula Bloom (1967). “A roof and four walls”

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• Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

  Robert Herrick

  Death, Time, Flower

  "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" l. 1 (1648)

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• Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him you’re as cute as a button, flash a little deviant guile his way, and tell him to go feast on somebody’s else’s sweet flesh.

  Nancy Milford

  Cute, Sweet, Eye

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