As one gets older one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of bir...
(n.) Alt. of Transiency
There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands.
The more things change the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.)
Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long.
You can't step into the same river twice.
There are three things which the public will always clamor for sooner or later: namely novelty novelty novelty.
Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have.
The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time,...
Whenever you see flies or insects in a still life—a wilted petal, a black spot on the apple—the painter is giving you a secret message. He’s telling you that living things don’t last—it’s all temporar...
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes.
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
You're saying nothing lasts forever, he heard the fellow whine. (Well, pretty trite, he thought.)No, he heard her say. I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and amongst those exce...
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.
What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place.
When you get there there isn't any there there.
I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day but no change at all ivry fifty years.
A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever.
Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.
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