Quotes About Impermanence

Life in this world is limited. Never be in the least bit afraid!

Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.

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

Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?

Life is like a Ferrari, it goes too fast. But that's ok, because you can't afford it anyway.

There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is.

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.

Art is a reflection on life. Life isn't something we can cut and fix. It's always in a state of flux.

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.

Life is once. Forever.

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

The more we remember that life is a gift-that everything changes, we're not in control-the stronger our sense of well-being becomes.

Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.

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

I take a good long look at her. I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can't stop people from dying. You can't stop them from going away. You can't stop yourself from going away either.

I'm afraid they have been eat up by the elements.' Just like all of us.

She loved the permanence of film, how you couldn't just delete an image and try again.

There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. None of us knows how long we have, maybe another month, maybe another fifteen days, maybe another fifty years- I like living as if I only have that two days.

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