It was the terror of impermanence, the knowledge that all…

“Old terror crouched in the shadows. It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned…

— Terry Pratchett

“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