There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal 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
This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it… — Jeff Bridges 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
Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and… — Dōgen Zenji 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
“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
“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
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
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
I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and… — Jason Silva 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
“Money, prestige, possessions, a home with two and a half bathrooms—these aren’t the guiding lights of the universe that show us our… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“The assumption that humans exist within an essentially impermanent universe, taken as an operational precept, demands that the intellect become a totally… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and… — Upanishad Copy Share Image
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“Man was, and is, too shallow and cowardly to endure the fact of the mortality of everything living. He wraps it up… — Oswald Spengler 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
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
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
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
By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be… — William Braxton Irvine Copy Share Image
“IMPERMANENCE means that the essence of life is fleeting. Some people are so skillful at their mindfulness practice that they can actually… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“I've known supreme happiness, and I'm not greedy enough to want what I have to go on forever. Every dream ends. Wouldn't… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite,… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“the ease with which the big crises can wipe out the small ones that seemed so critical just a moment before. All… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“The perfume of incense reminds us of the pervading influence of virtue, the lamp reminds us of light of knowledge and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
With every glance I take in the 'negative-positive' of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted,… — Christophe Agou Copy Share Image
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
![“I've known supreme happiness, and I'm not greedy enough to want what I have to go on forever. Every dream ends. Wouldn't it be foolish, knowing that nothing lasts forever, to insist that one has a right to do something that does? [...]but, if eternity existed, it would be this moment.” quote by Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/206/yukio-mishima-1418_dreams_i-ve-known-supreme-happiness-and-i-m-not_2932549.jpg)
