“Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.” Kathleen Winsor
Category: Impermanence
Old Age and Death
“Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful if it happens in that order.” David Gerrold
Past Expiration Date
Simply Imperceptible
“Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!” Winfried Georg Sebald
Being and Nothingness II
“We are nothing but die cut shapes flowing in the wind waiting to fall.” Joan Ambu
Big Wheel
“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
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
