Sufjan Stevens

"All things go."

- Sufjan Stevens, 'Chicago'

Michelle Branch

"Everything comes and goes."

- Michelle Branch, 'Everything Comes And Goes'

Charlie Chaplin

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."

- Charlie Chaplin, actor, director and composer

eastmountainsouth

"All the stars that fill the sky, they burn out before our eyes."

- eastmountainsouth, 'All The Stars'

Heraclitus

"Nothing endures but change."

- Heraclitus, ancient Greek philosopher

Willa Cather

"Oh this is the joy of the rose:
That it blows
And goes."

- Willa Cather, author

Abraham Lincoln

"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.'"

- Abraham Lincoln, former president of the USA