“Thousands of years ago, somebody came up with the idea of impermanence of the beauty and inevitability of change. I'm pretty sure they had just been dumped.”— Victor Levin, Brian Bloom, Anton Yelchin, imdb.com
“Time is like cement. It takes time to become permanent.”— Andrew Kreisberg, Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Phil Klemmer, Rip Hunter, Arthur Darvill, imdb.com
“The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me.”— George Peppard, jmm.home.xs4all.nl
“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I tried to kiss away the emptiness screaming ‘I love you’ into the spaces as if I could fill him, us. He was my first experience with transience— searching for a residence in the impermanent.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“You and I were never meant to last too many elbows, too much skin two bodies intertwined in beds but never dreams.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it’s a big part, and sometimes it isn’t, but either way, it’s a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you’re alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Som…”— Jim Butcher, amazon.com
“What does it taste like? he asks me, his breath a sweet impermanence. Tell me what it tastes like.”— J. Scott Browniee, narrativemagazine.com
“Every time it rains it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning but you still choose to believe that the night will last forever. Nothing lasts forever. Not the good or the bad.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca