Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.
So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')
I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup.
At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources and fossil fuel make the status quo untenable. The only question is whether civil society will survive the transition.
In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.
And let its meaning permeate Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.
It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.
Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.