“There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Carp Diem
Category: Impermanence
Blown Out
“Inside of us, there’s a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.” Rumi
Fade to Black
“It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.” Thich Nhat Hanh
The Last Samurai
“With regards to the way of death, if you are prepared to die at any time, you will be able to meet your release from life with equanimity. As calamities are usually not as bad as anticipated beforehand, it is foolhardy to feel anxiety about tribulations not yet endured.” Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Pushing Up Daisies
“Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, demised, departed and defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. God’s way of saying, slow down.” Patch Adams
Finish
“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed, and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.” Charles Bukowski
As Good as It Gets
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.” Oscar Wilde
Let it Rain
“It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.” Charles Bukowski
Transitioning
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” Isaac Asimov
Without Hope
“Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.” Antonio Porchia
