“The great wheel of fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late – it does not matter when, in the end, it crushes us all.” H. Rider Haggard
Big Wheel
Category: Impermanence
The Big Sleep
“Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.” Anne Rice
December
“December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.” Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life
End
“End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Ephemera
“We’re as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.” Robert Charles Wilson
Carp Diem
“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
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
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
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
