“ You shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world. Yet from that acceptance of transience he evolved his vast the… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ I wish all this never had to change, says Rafiq, unexpectedly. I’m pleased he’s content and sad that a kid so young knows that nothing lasts. David Mitchell
“ All things are subject to change and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis.) Anonymous
“ All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another. Anatole France
“ No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through night or day, cathedral or the caveWe pass forever, craving form that binds. Hermann Hesse
“ 'Change' is scientific 'progress' is ethical change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy. Bertrand Russell
“ It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn't last forever. Although for them it may… Margaret Atwood
“ Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. Simon Reynolds
“ Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that of which every hour brings us neare… Samuel Johnson
“ And these thingsthat keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient,they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue.They want us to change them completely, in our invisible heart… Rainer Maria Rilke
“ I am who I am.A coincidence no less unthinkablethan any other.I could have had differentancestors, after all.I could have flutteredfrom another nestor crawled bescaledfrom under another tree.Nature's… Wislawa Szymborska
“ The pleasure-house is dust:—behind, before,This is no common waste, no common gloom;But Nature, in due course of time, once moreShall here put on her beauty and her bloom.She leaves these objects to a… William Wordsworth
“ Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the sprin… Yoshida Kenkō
“ A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.("Ephemera") George Sterling
