Quotes About Impermanence

I communed with myself, after the manner of prodigals, and said: "How much better that I were down in Denver, even at Mrs. Coney's, digging with a skewer into the corners seeking dirt which might be there, yea, even eating codfish, than that I should perish on this desert—of imagination." So I turned the current of my imagination and fancied that I was at home before the fireplace, and that the backlog was about to roll down.

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

I leave a lovely opalescent ribbon: I know this.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seemed filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster

The bridge was geologically ancient, an impassive observer, surrounded by life that was fleeting in comparison: trees that would only survive hundreds of years, tourists who would only live decades, insects that would thrive only for weeks.

eventually, everything goes away.

It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.

It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.

Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

Instead of stability, Heraclitus said, there is only change: ceaseless, relentless, and without end. In the desperate watercourse of existence, any notion we have of permanent or fixed values, even of our own body, is pure illusion. Instead, everywhere we look, everything we see is in constant flux and change.

the world of being is like this gravel: you think you own a car, a house, this blue-zigzagged shirt, but you just borrow these things. Yesterday, you constructed an aqueduct of dreams and stood at Gibraltar, but you possess nothing.

All compounded things are impermanent!" "Everything bound up with pollution is suffering!" "All phenomena are devoid of self!" and "Nirvana is peace!

As a beginner, one first has to give rise to compassion focusing on beings as its object. Once one realizes the impermanent nature of beings and phenomena, understanding that all compounded phenomena are impermanent in that they undergo a process of destruction taking place from instant to instant, compassion focusing on the nature arises. Finally, the realization of the emptiness of all phenomena gives rise to compassion free from any focus.

Al igual que un viajero no tiene apego a la posada donde se hospeda durante una noche, yo tampoco debo tener apego a este cuerpo, que es mi posada solo durante este renacimiento.

At the loss of praise and fame, my own mind appears to me just like a child who wails in distress when its sand castle is destroyed.

Entiende que la fortuna no es sino infortunio interminable, por el desasosiego de adquirirla y guardarla y por la desolación que acompaña el perderla.

Cómo puede un ser fugaz apegarse a otro ser fugaz?, pues no volverá a ver a su ser amado en miles de nacimientos.

All that I possess and use Is like the fleeting vision of a dream. It fades into the realms of memory, And fading, will be seen no more.

What we see and what we touch Is stuff of dreams and mirages.

Life keeps on happening and doesn't need us to think about it. It's constantly arising and ceasing every single moment.

We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.

Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.

One should approach life with a realisation that nothing is permanent.

I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.