If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My… — Cheng Man-ch'ing Copy Share Image
“Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth,… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“The dharma teaches us the impermanence of all phenomena, but you cannot prepare yourself for the loss of the phenomenon you love… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence. — Pamela Moore Copy Share Image
Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!" — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“It was the terror of impermanence, the knowledge that all this would pass away, that a beautiful voice or a wonderful figure… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“We are not here as settlers, but rather as observers and sojourners. In our eyes, everything looks permanent, as though they would… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Mortal lives are not stones. They are not seas. For impermanence to judge itself by the standards of permanence is folly. Or… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“I thought more and more about impermanence and death - not in the form of a depressing nihilism, but as a contemplation… — Andrew Bowen Copy Share Image
Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
If we start worrying whether our nose is too big or too small, we should think, “What if I had no head?… — Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“...a profound opportunity to embrace impermanence. How those of us who are renters are perhaps in a better position to recognize that… — Susan Rebecca White Copy Share Image
“that was bad; i shouldn't have done that to prevent you from entering a catatonic state i am going to maintain a… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“The boat has become supreme isolation, chosen isolation, holding myself apart from the world, which I only dimly understand anyway. I can… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning, We will come back to earth some fragrant night, And take these… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
“Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it,… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
This physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to… — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Copy Share Image
Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more!… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
“When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS… — Dogen Copy Share Image
How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“We will lost everything that matters, or everything that matters will lose us. It is predestined, the nature of life.” — Steven Rowley Copy Share Image
