Impermanence Quotes

Impermanence Quote of the day

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory

Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.

Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

This physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to become overly attached to it.

That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?

This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.

Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.

Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would.

Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:

One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.

We say the rarajipari is the game of life, Angel said. You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.

Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly.

Each moment cancels the last. In the end there is nothing, not even the end.

...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...

Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.

Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he?

It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.

When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.

Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.