Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in dust. — Violet Fane Copy Share Image
The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“In the impermanence of life, it was impossible to accept the foreverness of death.” — Martine Murray Copy Share Image
Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant.… — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next. — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and… — Buddha Copy Share Image
For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs. — Marie-Luise Gothein 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
Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I just think that the reality of life is impermanence. That's the foundation of understanding what Yoga is, and we're here for… — Gary Kraftsow Copy Share Image
On to the Next Dream became about much more than me facing a challenging situation; it became about how all of us… — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
“All systems, whether religious, philosophical, or scientific, are simply human constructions that express a psychological need for stability and control that protects… — Kevin Aho Copy Share Image
“[S]torytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not… — Joan Silber 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
“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
“...if we seek the permanence of an object as something existing from its own side, we discover something inexpressible. If we take… — Zongtrul Losang Tsöndru Copy Share Image
See, see how the sun has moved onward while we talked. Nothing can stop it in its course. Prayers cannot halt the… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
“What indeed is the half-life of a mortal consciousness? What is the half-life of a memory of that mortal consciousness? Of course,… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy… — Kobayashi Issa Copy Share Image
The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil… — Christopher Isherwood 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
Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days. — Philip Whalen Copy Share Image
“Everything is so fleeting and impermanent. It’s enough to drive you bat shit crazy.” — Shane Kuhn Copy Share Image