Quotes About Impermanence

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.

Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.

Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of time.

Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.

If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die.

When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.

Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.

Nothing endures but change.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its stud

But that's the trouble with moments—they end." ~Narrator

Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.

What we got is NOW, Huck, and now is forever. Until it ain't. So, you can't worry over nothing except putting off the end a your story as long as you can, and finishing it with a bang.

All things flow nothing abides.

For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

This world is not a place where people can be together forever.

Forever is not granted to any of us," the duchess said. "Even tomorrow is not granted as by right. Any of us can go at any moment.

He knew that after tomorrow he would try to remember what she looked like and not always succeed.