Impermanence

"Knowledge of the stability of the Dhamma is also subject to destruction, vanishing, fading away and cessation."

"Tout passe, tout casse, tout lasse."

"Ich bedauere die Menschen, welche von der Vergänglichkeit der Dinge viel Wesens machen und sich in Betrachtung irdischer Nichtigkeit verlieren. Sind wir ja eben deßhalb da, um das Vergängliche unvergänglich zu machen; das kann ja nur dadurch geschehen, wenn man beides zu schätzen weiß."

"The support of the world is a myth, know this my friend Nanak says, it isn’t stable, no more than a wall of sand Ram has gone, Ravan has gone, they of the great lineages Nanak says nothing endures, the world is but a dream Think of the calamities that may befall Nothing on this path is durable, says Nanak Whatever has sprouted will end, today or tomorrow Nanak sing the praises of Hari, leave aside the webs of the world"

"Whatever is will be was"

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this."

"It is wiser to contemplate the law of impermanence than to try to repeal it."

"Something offered is not offered. Something finished is not finished. Nothing changes."

"In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble-organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is me."

"All things are impermanent in nature."