Quotes About Impermanence

To think that a man Has but fifty years to live under heaven. Surely this world Is nothing but a vain dream. Living but one life, Is there anything that does not decay?

You'll find, my friend, that in the gutters of this floating world, much of the trash consists of fallen flowers.

The body is not me; it is only the jacket which I wear. When this jacket is torn and tattered, the time has come for me to throw it away and put on a new jacket. Sri Krishna asks, "What is there to grieve about? What is so tragic about putting on a new jacket? Do you want to keep an old jacket that lets in cold air, makes you uncomfortable, and can no longer be used to serve others?

Nothing is permanent but change.

I let his rose wither in a vase on my desk, a vase painfully empty of flowers since the long-ago time when, on my birthday, Mario would give me a cattleya, in imitation of Swann. In the evening the flower was already black and bent on its stem. I threw it in the trash.

an old photograph of my sisters and me with our father. The photograph was ruined. Those images of us from so long ago were yellowed, cracked, like the figures of winged demons in certain altarpieces that the faithful have defaced with pointed objects.

Leonora is a floating leaf of paper that will combust itself

Of course, it wasn't possible to account for all the time. By the time you had written down what time it was, it was already later than it had been.

Counterintuitive though it may sound, joy can also arise from properly understanding impermanence. The Buddha says: 'When, by knowing the impermanence, change, fading away, and cessation of forms, one sees … with proper wisdom that forms … are all impermanent, suffering, and subject to change, joy arises.

E per riaddormentarmi penso che ti scriverei che non sapevo che il tempo non aspetta, davvero non lo sapevo, non si pensa mai che il tempo è fatto di gocce, e basta una goccia in più perché il liquido si sparga per terra e si allarghi a macchia e si perda.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

the ease with which the big crises can wipe out the small ones that seemed so critical just a moment before. All of our small anxieties and trivial preoccupations evaporate with the sudden recognition of what really matters. We are reminded of the impermanence of much that we assume is forever and the value of so much we take for granted.

Porque tudo que é vivo morre.

I'm really not sure if others fail to perceive me or if, one fraction of a second after my face interferes with their horizon, a millionth of second after they have cast their gaze on me, they already begin to wash me from their memory: forgotten before arriving at the scant, sad archangel of a remembrance.

Investigation helps us to go beyond the surface of things to discover the underlying laws of the universe and the three characteristics that the Buddha described as dukkha, anicca, and anatta, the Pali words for "unsatisfactoriness," "impermanence," and "selflessness.

Mankind, fleet of life, like tree leaves, weak creatures of clay, unsubstantial as shadows, wingless, ephemeral, wretched, mortal and dreamlike.

Nothing lasts forever--not even your troubles.

Buddha spoke very frequently about the impermanence (in Sanskrit, anitya) of everything.

Impermanent truly are conditioned things, having the nature of arising and passing away," he taught. It struck him as the greatest irony that the central characteristic of the universe—change—is the thing with which we are most uncomfortable.

He taught that to be at peace, we must accept the impermanence of life and existence.

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.

I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.