“One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.” — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
“At the heart of all truth lies a radiant cloud of unknowing, a glorious nugget of doubt, a shining core of impermanence.” — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
“All the beauty in the world was made within the oppressive limitations of time and death and impermanence.” — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image
Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence. — Meredith L. Young-Sowers Copy Share Image
Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That… — Dainin Katagiri Copy Share Image
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too… — Vera Brittain 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
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
Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“The passage of time. That is what is eternal, that is what has no end. And it shows itself only in the… — David Szalay Copy Share Image
Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“The basic Buddhist teaching of impermanence (Pali: anicca) suggests that even the most powerful spiritual experiences come and go like clouds in… — Jonathan Landaw Copy Share Image
If we lived forever, if the dews of Adashino never vanished, if the crematory smoke on Toribeyama never faded, men would hardly… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance… — Eckhart Tolle 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
The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's because we innately know that everything is impermanent that we so desperately cling to it. But cling we do. We… — John C. Parkin 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
“As a matter of historical fact, Japan has suffered far less from wars, famines, and floods than China, for example, where these… — Alex Kerr Copy Share Image
Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. — Gregory Maguire 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
“I have no news of my coming or passing away-- the whole thing happened quicker than a breath; ask no questions of… — Farid al-Din Attar (عطار 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
“...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“I seem always to enjoy things more intensely because of the certainty they will not last.” — W.L. Rusho 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
“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
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
Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and… — Satya Nadella 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 our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is… — Rachel Naomi Remen 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/quotes/img-quotes/206/yukio-mishima-1418_dreams_i-ve-known-supreme-happiness-and-i-m-not_2932549.jpg)
