Impermanence Quotes

Nothing endures but change.

A thousand years ago five minutes wereEqual to forty ounces of fine sand.Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime andInfinite aftertime: above your headThey close like giant wings, and you are dead.

There is no "the way things are." Every day is different, and you live it differently.

Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.

Love is misunderstood by many. Love is to be in the state of calmness even when everything is getting destroyed of you & around you. Love is to be Permanent in the law of impermanence.

You may be anybody now. One day, you will be just a faded memory.

Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that todayis tomorrow's nostalgia.

Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain.

And suddenly you realize: you are in every dot of the universe vanishing and arising.

The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers

Trees, O trees, why can't you hold on to your leaves?

The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.

In reality nobody can grasp anything permanently in life. Absolutely nothing. Somethings may stay in memory for a while but eventually that too fades away.

Eventually everything appears to disappear from the life. That's it.

To know yourself you must know the transience of your self.

If nothing lasts then everything has meaning. If everything dies that means we actually live.

Every declaration we make is like a seed planted, whose harvest we can't possibly foretell.

By acknowledging my impermanence, I can consider if there is anything I can do now to help my loved ones who will be left behind cope with losing me and to facilitate healing.

Human says time goes by -Time says human goes by

Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.

Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment. (From 'Fukan zazengi')

Those who were known as sultans and emperors are gone to dust. Their palaces are now known as ruins. This is ultimate power and commands of nature.

.....we find ourselves inhabitants of the last few living cells of a dying god

The greatest freedom in this world is a sense of self detached from appearances so that we may sacrifice today’s comforts for tomorrow’s opportunities.

Seize the day, then let it go.

Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have.

Everything rusts, rots, crumbles, vanishes. The infinite will just take a little bit longer.

I believe in the brief eternity of the rose.