“Nothing mortals make lasts; nothing the gods make endures forever.”
Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia
An unnamed goddess
The Queen of Attolia (2000)
“Nothing mortals make lasts; nothing the gods make endures forever.”
Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia
An unnamed goddess
The Queen of Attolia (2000)
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
Reading (1990)
“Nothing lasts forever, few things even last for long: all are susceptible of decay in one way or another; moreover all that begins also ends.”
Nihil perpetuum, pauca diuturna sunt; aliud alio modo fragile est, rerum exitus variantur, ceterum quicquid coepit et desinit.
Seneca the Younger book To Polybius
From Ad Polybium De Consolatione (Of Consolation, To Polybius), chap. I; translation based on work of Aubrey Stewart
Other works
“The sadness will last forever.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Attributed to Vincent, as quoted by Theo van gogh in his letter from Paris, to Elisabeth van Gogh, 5 August 1890 http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/21/etc-Theo-Lies.htm <br class="br">Some of the last words Vincent said to Theo, while dying <br class="br">1890s