Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.
H. Rider HaggardTags: knowledge learning man time mankind futility materialism nations inevitability passing-of-time everything-is-meaningless fallen-nations
The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.
Jamaica KincaidTags: life fate inevitability
The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.
Núria AñóTags: humor life age work living old-age aging-gracefully ageing aging economy middle-age mathematics jobs works growing-old job inevitability old-people worker workers working-class getting-older irony-of-life retired old-aged retiring nuria-ano
The moving hand once having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line.
Omar KhayyámTags: life time consequences inevitability
Tags: insight pity inevitability
Part of the apparently conventional nature of our relationships is the threat of separation and death. This body dies. That body dies. We can rejuvenate, feel better, live longer, but, even so, in this world everybody dies. That is why we do spiritual practice, because we are conscious of the destiny of our separation. We are willing to fulfill the law of love, but on the other hand what we love dies. That is why this is one of the realms of suffering. This world is not a heaven. This is not a place of fulfillment. Thus, we must yield to the true Condition. We must not become dependent upon the conventional aspect of our relations. We must recognize our relations. We must identify with the Condition of the loved one.
You must become established in the real Condition, or you will never be satisfied. You will be driven to all kinds of preoccupations and great schemes, trying to become victorious or immortal, for immortality's own sake, simply because you cannot deal with the fact of death. But death is an absolute message in this realm. It obligates us to recognize or identify one another in Truth, and we are not relieved of that obligation in this place.
Tags: death spirituality immortality separation inevitability fear-of-death dukkha
The ultimate affront, that neither hurries, grows weary nor forgets, is called death.
Ahmadou KouroumaTags: death inevitability
Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'
...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels.
Tags: life death living dying inevitability
It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.
Laurens van der PostTags: patience hope inevitability
The wisest minds are those who refuse all the negative inevitabilities!
Mehmet Murat ildanTags: inevitability
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