Quotes About Impermanence

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One more ray of sun and I will be rotten.

Vives como una roca feliz en medio del océano: estás fijo, mientras que todo lo que te rodea está en movimiento turbulento. Estás fijo en una realidad que permite la idea de que nada está fijo, de que hasta la roca más feliz y fuerte se disolverá un día totalmente y será tan fluida como el océano del que nació.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Nothing endures but change.

The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.

In the impetuousness of youth, when you're 21 years old, you want results yesterday.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Once you believe things are permanent, you're trapped in a world without doors.

Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

As long as something wants to arise, let it. As long as something wants to last, let it. As soon as something wants to pass, let it.

Gotama did for the self was Copernicus did for the earth: he put it in its rightful place, despite its continuing to appear just as it did before. Gotama mo more rejected the existence of the self than Copernicus rejected the existence of the earth. Instead, rather than regarding it as a fixed, non-contingent point around which everything else turned, he recognized that each self was a fluid, contingent process just like everything else.

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That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

Remember: life is a breath; soon I will vanish from your sight. The eye that looks will not see me; you may search, but I will be gone. Like a cloud fading in the sky, man dissolves into death. He leaves the whole world behind him and never comes home again.

This will never come again

The world is impermanent--the eruption of Mount St. Helens showed how quickly and drastically things can change. Yet we still can be good stewards of the things we love.

Everything could be taken away at the snap of a finger.

But to be chemically fixed in time and passed hand to hand forever: that is a nakedness which can never be clothed again.

I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good things will not last. . . But photos provide a false sense of security> like our flawed memory, they are guaranteed to fade. . . . We take photographs in order to remember, but it is in the nature of a photograph to forget (pg 157)

The angel of death comes to us and says, "You see everything that exists here is mine; it is not yours. Your house, your spouse, your children, your car, your career, your money — everything is mine and I can take it away when I want to, but for now you can use it.

Todas las cosas están vivas y cambian continuamente, de modo que, en ocasiones, lo máximo que podrás hacer tendrá una gran calidad, y en otras no será tan bueno.

Man is mortal, and as the professor so rightly said mortality can come so suddenly

Yes, man is mortal, but that isn't so bad. What's bad is that sometimes he's unexpectedly mortal, that's the rub. And, in general, he can't even say in the morning what he'll be doing that very same night.