The value of impermanence is to call attention to the…

“Everything changes; nothing is permanent.”

— Gyomay M Kubose

“Man was, and is, too shallow and cowardly to endure the fact of the mortality of everything living. He wraps it up in rose-coloured…

— Oswald Spengler

“The boat has become supreme isolation, chosen isolation, holding myself apart from the world, which I only dimly understand anyway. I can sit on…

— Nick Flynn

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

— Gretel Ehrlich

“I thought more and more about impermanence and death - not in the form of a depressing nihilism, but as a contemplation on the…

— Andrew Bowen

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks…

— Nadeem Aslam

“All systems, whether religious, philosophical, or scientific, are simply human constructions that express a psychological need for stability and control that protects us from…

— Kevin Aho

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

— Bill Porter

Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him you’re as cute as a button,…

— Nancy Milford

Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.

— Yasmin Mogahed

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you…

— Anonymous

I will garden on the double run, my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes, and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind…

— Richard Hugo

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

— Steve Jobs

Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.

— Michael Beckwith

“Change is the very nature of Nature. if there's one thing that doesn't change, it is the fact that everything changes. In the Korean…

— Ilchi Lee