Quotes About Impermanence

A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

There is nothing permanent except change.

You can't step into the same river twice.

Everything passes; everything wears out; everything breaks.

All things change, nothing is extinguished.

Everything flows, nothing stays still.

Nothing in this world is permanent.

Nothing is permanent but change.

Impermanence is the law of the universe.

What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid, boundless, colored mutability!-Life in the making?

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

The present will not long endure.

Time is like a river of fleeting events, and its current is strong; as soon as something comes into sight, it is swept past us, and something else takes its place, and that too will be swept away.

One thing is certain and the rest is lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Nothing lasts. Not love, not grief.

Equanimity is based on the knowledge that everything changes and will always change and that is okay. We find equanimity only by paying close attention to what is happening in the moment.