Quotes About Impermanence

It is best to realize the transitory nature of things and work with it. Understanding the world's ephemeral nature can be the biggest advantage of all.

Your life is a creation that dies when you die. Release

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

The thing which you see, feel or touch is not real but an illusion.

Il nonno dimenticò che il sole, dopo aver brillato, si oscura, che la luna divenuta piena comincia a declinare, che un recipiente pieno si capovolge e che alla prosperità segue la decadenza; e commise un grave errore nel voler organizzare un grande funerale per la nonna.

Temporary things can not give you the permanent results

Las respuestas a mis preguntas siempre han ido en la misma dirección: el poder es cada vez más débil, más transitorio, más limitado.

understanding the nature of things just as they are. Why? Because: So you should view all of the fleeting worlds: A star at dawn, a bubble in the stream; A flash of lightning in a summer cloud; A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

The rotation of the world indicates that no one or nothing can last forever in physical form; only the spiritual is infinite.

I am not, I will not be. I have not, I will not have. This frightens all children, And kills fear in the wise.

With all its many risks, this life endures No more than windblown bubbles in a stream. How marvelous to breathe in and out again, To fall asleep and then awake refreshed.

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence. It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

enjoy the now. It'll be gone soon enough, and no one knows what the next hour, much less tomorrow, will bring." Elena decided she should

How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.

Nothing last forever except change

Death, the only inevitable item on the list of life, is nonetheless such a constant matter of human creativity.

Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it al out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated.

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

LIFE IS NOT ORDERLY. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.

Wszystko, co z?o?one, skazane jest na rozpad.

We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when it pleases. Sometimes, it stays for life; other times it stays for a second, a day, a month or a year. So don't fear love when it comes simply because it makes you vulnerable. But don't be surprised when it leaves either. Just be glad you had the opportunity to experience it.

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

For me, an image becomes meaningless inasmuch as it's always temporary.