Lao Tzu Quotes

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.

Nothing is permanent.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

All things are only transitory.

'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Time is not kind to everything.

The present will not long endure.

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.

Wind and fortune are not lasting.

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be.

Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter..

Nothing lasts forever in my profession.

Life is like this: things come and go.

It's a mantra I've lived by for as long as I can remember. Nothing lasts for ever.

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.

Transience is one of the fundamental characteristics both of the human condition and of the political order.

Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.

I think everything is temporary.

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

Time is a face on the water.