Impermanence Quotes
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Impermanence Quotes & Sayings
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If nothing lasts then everything has meaning. If everything dies that means we actually live.
— Chris Matakas
Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia. — Zeena Schreck
When we hold on too tightly to our attachments we are trying to keep them just as they are, to make them permanent. But nothing in life is permanent.
— Gyalwa Dokhampa
My father rules an entire planet.""He's losing it. — Frank Herbert
"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
— Gautama Buddha
Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
— Yasmin Mogahed
Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.
— Jack Kornfield
It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Any wave of the ocean could be my epitaph.
— Marty Rubin
Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have.
— Marty Rubin
All love is true while it lasts.
— Marty Rubin
For them, and for Homer, impermanence is life's central sorrow and the source of its most lasting pain.
— Adam Nicolson
The knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.
— Stephanie Mills
Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I believe in the brief eternity of the rose.
— Marty Rubin
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
— Pema Chodron
That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)
— Stephen Levine
Everything that is real lasts only for a moment.
— Marty Rubin
Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.
— Michael Beckwith
Impermanence is the law of the universe.
— Carlene Hatcher Polite
And yet for all that I still had never gotten used to the breathtaking impermanence of things.
— Michael Chabon
The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid.
— Eiji Yoshikawa
In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.
— Bill Porter
We rise to meet each day because there will come a time when the day will rise without us
— Chris Matakas
Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to.
— Marty Rubin
The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.
— Chris Matakas
At the heart of all truth lies a radiant cloud of unknowing, a glorious nugget of doubt, a shining core of impermanence.
— James K. Morrow
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
— Alan W. Watts
It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
The only permanent aspect of creation is constant impermanence.
— Chris Matakas
... the very concept of happiness is conditional, a fiction.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Part of the problem of the city is the impermanence of success. We're only as good as our last deal,
— Derek L. Worthington
All things that have form eventually decay. -Orochimaru
— Masashi Kishimoto
Nothing endures but change.
— Heraclitus
Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.
— Meredith L. Young-Sowers
Suffering is described in terms of three characteristics of impermanence or transitory nature, unsatisfactoriness and selflessness.
— Dalai Lama XIV
The lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.
— Gretel Ehrlich
To know yourself you must know the transience of your self.
— Ilyas Kassam
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
— Rabindranath Tagore
And here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad ... gilded with impermanence ...
— John Geddes
Nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.
— Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
These of us who have risen highest merely have a deeper awareness of how uncertain and empty everything is.
— Pessoa, Fernando
Seize the day, then let it go.
— Marty Rubin
Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
— Gregory Maguire
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
— Gaston Bachelard
Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Do everything and nothing is done.
— Marty Rubin
It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence.
— Gerald Vizenor
Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.
— Storm Jameson
They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.
— Peter S. Beagle
That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty - their impermanence.
— Pamela Moore
Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.
— Myrtle Reed
Human says time goes by -Time says human goes by — Anonymous
Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.
— Deepak Chopra
Write as if Time will erase every word.
— Marty Rubin
Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.
— David Foster Wallace
Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly.
— Marty Rubin
Write as if the wind will erase every word.
— Marty Rubin
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.
— Steve Maraboli
I seem always to enjoy things more intensely because of the certainty they will not last.
— W.L. Rusho
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
— Heraclitus
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
— Richard Paul Evans
