“ I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day but no change at all ivry fifty years. Finley Peter Dunne
“ When he was young, he told her, each phase of his life, each self he tried on, had seemed reassuringly temporary. Its imperfections didn't matter, because he could easily replace one moment by the nex… Salman Rushdie
“ Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them. Paulo Coelho
“ The rays which stream through the shutter will be no longer remembered when the shutter is wholly removed. Henry David Thoreau
“ There are three things which the public will always clamor for sooner or later: namely novelty novelty novelty. Thomas Hood
“ There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. James Salter
“ The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes. Iris Murdoch
“ 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… Iain M. Banks
“ 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. The Talmud
“ As I age in the world it will rise and spread,and be for this place horizonand orison, the voice of its winds.I have made myself a dream to dreamof its rising, that has gentled my nights.Let me desire… Wendell Berry
“ The more things change the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.) Alphonse Karr
“ 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… Donna Tartt
“ 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,… Ray Bradbury
