Quotes About Impermanence

Some people think that to end suffering, you have to stop everything — body, feelings, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness — but that is not correct

Similarly by looking deeply into the nature of impermanence and no self, you can also touch the nature of nirvana.

Instead of saying that being leads to birth, we should say that being and nonbeing lead to birth and death. In our head, we have become used to the idea that when we are born we come into being out of nonbeing and when we die we go from being into nonbeing. If we remove the idea of being and nonbeing, there is no more idea of birth and death.

Rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd

Both death and life are happening at every instant in the river of our physical body.

All phenomena are neither produced nor destroyed, because they are in a constant process of manifesting.

Thich Nhat Hanh

A thought is like the flame of a lamp, and it proceeds through causes and conditions.

If you have lost someone and if you have cried so very much, please look deeply and recognize that the true nature of your beloved is the nature of no birth and no death, no coming and no going.

I watched the early morning light pass over and through the windows of colored glass, leaving streaks of red and green and yellow on the stone floor. When I was little, I used to try and capture the colored light. I thought I could hold it in my hand and carry it home. Now I know it is like happiness-- it is there or it is not, you cannot hold it or keep it.

Nothing is solid. Everything disappears. In a million, billion ways the world will fail you. How can you bear it?

Whatever song we are making in this place, we are going to die without hearing.

That no matter how good or bad things were, they were never permanent.

impermanence of things and how nothing stayed the same no matter how much you wanted it to.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

You came and you will be gone. You don't even have to do something for it, it happens by itself. You came by itself and you will be gone by itself. So, what do you worry about?

She herself had told him that you can never hold onto anything. The harder you try, the more precious things slip through your fingers. The secret to life, she had said, was to find the little things, the unimportant ones that would nonetheless always remind you of the precious things they accompanied—and hold onto them. Like the fine furniture her husband had carved for her, seemingly centuries ago.

Memories while true are impermanent, while film, while permanent is untrue.

No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.

These days won't last forever. No days ever do, though sometimes it's hard to convince oneself of that.

Every cause that has not yet produced its effect is an event that has not yet come to completion. It is an imbalance of energy that is in the process of becoming balanced.

The trouble with "now" is that no matter how much you wish it would, it doesn't last forever. But then... other than a grudge...what does?

And you, mother, stood behind me, impatient to be going, old at twenty-three, alone, thin overcoat flapping.

Acceptance of death. — The round of summer and winter becomes a blessing the moment we give up the fantasy of eternal spring.