Quotes About Impermanence

hasta qué punto es real nuestra posesión? Las flores se convierten en polvo, Hendrik desengancha y se va, la tierra nada sabe de cercas, las piedras seguirán en su sitio cuando yo no sea más que polvo, la propia comida que devoro solamente pasa a través de mí.

But transience was the way one treasured what one had been given.

The beauty of things must be that they end.

But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do

We are nothing. - Tomorrow we may be die. We are nothing. - You and me.

Why did God make all this all so decayable and dieable and harmable and wants to make me realize and scream?

All you want to do is run out there and get laid and get beat up and get screwed up and get old and sick and banged around by samsara, you fucking eternal meat of comeback you

Things come but to go, all things made have to be unmade, and they'll have to be unmade simply because they were made!

Everything's alright, form is emptiness and emptiness is form, and we're here forever, in one form or another, which is empty. Everything's alright, we're not here, there, or anywhere.

Like as the birds that gather in the trees of afternoon,' wrote Ashvhaghosha almost two thousand years ago, 'then at nightfall vanish all away, so are the separations of the world.

No more self-imposed agony... it's time to think and watch and keep concentrated on the fact that after all this whole surface of the world as we know it now will be covered with the silt of a billion years in time..

The trouble is, you think you have time.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter.

Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms

Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.

Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

The beauty of things must be that they end.

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.