On Death / Impermanence
- https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/impermanence
- See also Momento Mori
“Birth is not a beginning and death is not and ending. They are merely points on a continuum.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_stages_of_grief)
“I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it.” – Epictetus
“Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.” ― Kabir, The Bijak of Kabir
“Death is not the end. Death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveler. The soul is the guide.” – Sri Chinmoy, https://srichinmoyquotes.com/quotes-death/
“Life and death have a common bridge where we are all eternal travellers.” – Sri Chinmoy
Empires crumble. There are no exceptions. – Oscar Wilde
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too. – Marcus Aurelius
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert… . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”