“One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.” — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in dust. — Violet Fane Copy Share Image
“In the impermanence of life, it was impossible to accept the foreverness of death.” — Martine Murray Copy Share Image
The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days. — Philip Whalen Copy Share Image
“When we hold on too tightly to our attachments we are trying to keep them just as they are, to make them… — Gyalwa Dokhampa Copy Share Image
“At the heart of all truth lies a radiant cloud of unknowing, a glorious nugget of doubt, a shining core of impermanence.” — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting. — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature… — Mooji Copy Share Image
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The sound of the Gion Shoja temple bells echoes the impermanence of all things; the color of the sala flowers reveals the… — Helen Craig McCullough Copy Share Image
“What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut!… — Allan Sherman Copy Share Image
The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves… — William Browne Copy Share Image
The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Meatspace equals entropy. Impermanence. The fading of anger or passion is analogous to the fading of a photograph, the yellowing of old… — Maria Bustillos Copy Share Image
“But what a universe, anyhow! No use blaming human-beings for what they were. Everything was made so that it had to torture… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“The basic Buddhist teaching of impermanence (Pali: anicca) suggests that even the most powerful spiritual experiences come and go like clouds in… — Jonathan Landaw Copy Share Image
“Taking impermanence truly to heart is to be slowly freed from the idea of grasping, from our flawed and destructive view of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Most days, I’ve got this impermanence thing down just great. It doesn’t bother me; what’s to bother? Most days, I sit comfortably… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
“Our lives are constantly in a state of change and evolution. The things that cause you to identify as “you” are temporary,… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
“Everything is so fleeting and impermanent. It’s enough to drive you bat shit crazy.” — Shane Kuhn Copy Share Image
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would. — Ursula Bloom Copy Share Image
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
