Quotes About Impermanence

Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.

thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative.

will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.

Has my understanding of death and impermanence become so keen and so urgent that I am devoting every second to the pursuit of enlightenment? If you can answer 'yes' to both of these, then you have really understood impermanence.

This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, rushing by like a torrent down a steep mountain.

I ask myself often: "Why is it that everything changes?" And only one answer comes back to me: That is how life is. Nothing, nothing at all, has any lasting character. The Buddha said: This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

Milarepa sang: When you are strong and healthy, You never think of sickness coming, But it descends with sudden force Like a stroke of lightning. When involved in worldly things, You never think of death's approach; Quick it comes like thunder Crashing round your head.

If everything dies and changes, then what is really true?

The Buddha said: This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

In our minds changes always equal loss and suffering.

Toute chose étant par nature impermanente, fluide et interdépendante, notre mode de pensée et nos actions modifient inévitablement l'avenir.

Transient forms sparkle in and out of existence, creating a never-ending, forever newly created reality.

There is only one law in the universe that never changes—that all things change, and that all things are impermanent.

Birth and death is the pulse of Buddha life.

dreams are like delicate little white flowers that will be blown away at the first breath of reality?

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change.

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.

Everything flows and nothing stays.

We do meditation, spiritual practices in this temporary body. Though this body is temporary, you have to use temporary things to realize the Truth.

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

Nothing iseternal.Everything elseis not.