“Human life is but of brief duration. 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever' (Isa. 40:6, 8). Let us hold fast to the commandment that abides, and despise the unreality that passes away.” HumansChristianLife IsForeverFieldsFlowerFleshHuman LifeGrassOrthodoxDespiseFadesCommandmentsOrthodox ChristianPassing AwayDurationHold FastUnreality Author:Saint Basil
“Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the previous ones. Some of those old pictures fade, but the impressions they leave will never pass away. Such an impression is the image of Hein Sietsma -- a joyful Christian who loved life so much but was still willing to give it to the great, good, and holy cause.” GivingStillsChristianFilmLife IsCausesWillingHolyScreensImpressionFadesJoyfulObscureLife Is LikePassing AwayOld Picture Author:Diet Eman
“If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.” IfsMenWorldMovingLife IsLosesForeverUncertaintyFadesThings In LifeFade AwayPrecious Things Author:Yoshida Kenko
“If we lived forever, if the dews of Adashino never vanished, if the crematory smoke on Toribeyama never faded, men would hardly feel the pity of things. The beauty of life is in its impermanence. Man lives the longest of all living things... and even one year lived peacefully seems very long. Yet for such as love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.” IfsMenWorldFeelsYearsLongDreamSeemsLife IsNightForeverThousandPitySmokeHuman ConditionFadesThousand YearsLiving ThingsOne NightDewImpermanenceFadedBeauty Of LifeNever Fade Author:Yoshida Kenko