Ron Rash Quotes

One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.

If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

We are occupants. No one has any lasting purchase on life or on the planet.

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.

I live my life until there's no more living to be done. Because you never know when it's going to stop. Wake up tomorrow and it could all be gone, bro. All the cars, all the motorcycles, everything. All the memories. We could go into a state of emergency, you know, and the world goes to war. The money won't count for nothing.

Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.

In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.

For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themselves, the universe itself rushes apart, and we ourselves are composed of matter in constant flux. Colonies of cells in temporary alliance, replicating and decaying and housed within, an incandescent cloud of electrical impulse and precariously stacked carbon code memory. This is reality, this is self knowledge, and the perception of it will, of course, make you dizzy.

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.

I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.

Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one.

The present will not long endure.

Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.

Nothing lasts forever in my profession.

Life is like this: things come and go.

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.

Life is so fragile.