Quotes About Impermanence

He thought of all the ways that so many people felt about life. Life was a matter of regret--how could it be anything else? We knew that we would lose the things we loved; we knew that sooner or later we would lose everything, and beyond that was a darkness, a state of non-being that we found hard to imagine, let alone accept.

Our possessing of our world is a temporary matter: we stamp our ownership upon our surroundings, give familiar names to the land about us, erect statues of ourselves, but all of this is swept away, so quickly, so easily. We think the world is ours for ever, but we are little more than squatters.

all the good things that we have in life are on temporary loan, at best, and can be taken away from us in an instant.

What we have, we all must lose—that applied to everything, even to that which we thought we had the greatest right. We were tenants of this earth—nothing more.

Life is a progression of partings," said the psychotherapist. "One by one, people—and things too—are taken from us. We lose them, they die, they are shown by us to be things of transitory association." "I'm sorry," said Ulf. "So am I," said Dr. Svensson.

Darconville drew it all out to this paradox, that on the one hand there are temporary beings whom we love but are ever changing, and beyond them there is the eternal object of love itself which is incorruptible, permanent, and ideal. And yet it is not only through the former that we can take cognizance of the latter, we would, without the former, actually have no idea of the latter, the imperfect relative giving us our only idea of the perfect absolute...

Every time I blinked I saw her: the untroubled face, the motionless body, the detail of her tattoo. Every time I breathed I realised that the woman with the Brighton Mermaid tattoo wasn't going to do that ever again.

Flowers whisper "Beauty!" to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.

We've all got a terminal illness. It's called life.

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now.

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.

This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

All that may be wished for, will by nature fade to nothing.

Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile.

We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather!

Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.