Quotes About Impermanence

Tomorrow is promised to no one.

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Nothing lasts forever. But the thing is, you can reuse some. Use your mind. - Leo's Mother, The Lost Hero

What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

One can appreciate & celebrate each moment — there's nothing more sacred. There's nothing more vast or absolute. In fact, there's nothing more!

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will

S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity.

Here lies one whose name was writ on water.

Dawn is a precious time of day. It reminds us that every glory must fade, and that all things, cruel or sweet, come to an end.

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we'd die, we'd wander around and sleep like cats.

What happens now will not matter in the future.

nothing is forever and you better get the good stuff in before you run out of time.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

The work of existence devours its own unfolding. What dissolves will dissolve-- you, reader, and I, and all our quick angers and longings.

To feel sabi is to feel keenly one's own sharp and particular existence amid its own impermanence, and to value the singular moment as William Blake did "infinity in the palm of your hand"—to feel it precise and almost-weightless as a sand grain, yet also vast.

Un giorno è sconfinato Un giorno è sconfinato Fino a mezzogiorno Poi è andato L'acqua del laghetto di ieri m'intreccia ancora i capelli Non so che ora è Impossibile capirlo Ma possibile rinunciarvi p#159

The peace and equanimity of the Buddha comes from an acceptance of the transitory nature of life.

Suffering is an approximate translation of the Pali word dukkha. Dukkha implies impermanence, imperfection and unsatisfactoriness. The Buddha did not start teaching by talking of his enlightenment, of bliss or openness or clarity; he started by talking about the truth of suffering.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water. — Janet Frame, Faces in the Water . (The Women's Press Ltd December 31, 1985)

The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence.

We are no more than candles burning in the wind.

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.