Impermanence Quotes

Impermanence is the law of the universe.

— Carlene Hatcher Polite

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

— Storm Jameson

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Recognize the impermanence of life.”

— Aron Micko H.B

Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

— Steve Jobs

“Everything changes; nothing is permanent.”

— Gyomay M Kubose

Our lives are written in disappearing ink.

— Michelle Cliff

Everything ends with flowers.

— Helene Cixous

The value of impermanence is to call attention to the permanent.

— Stuart Davis

Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.

— Henry Mitchell

Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days.

— Philip Whalen

“Everything is so fleeting and impermanent. It’s enough to drive you bat shit crazy.”

— Shane Kuhn

“In the impermanence of life, it was impossible to accept the foreverness of death.”

— Martine Murray

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.

— Ellen Glasgow

“And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.”

— Agnostic Zetetic

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

— Gregory Maguire

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it…

— Wes Moore

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

— Gretel Ehrlich

“Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by…

— Jodi Picoult

“Such is the impermanence of life and the endurance of a child's spirit." Grandmaster Deitrux, Ice Phoenix.”

— Sulin Young

Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

— Meredith L. Young-Sowers

If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given…

— Wendell Berry

“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

“1. “Death is the first thing to become certain the very moment life is conceived, and it is the only reality that…

— Neena Verma

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

“If we don’t insist on defining impermanence as unsatisfactory, then it’s natural to celebrate. Just a moments pause to consider the passing…

— Lin Jensen

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your…

— Jonathan Tropper

“On a certain day in the blue-moon month of September Beneath a young plum tree, quietly I held her there, my quiet,…

— Bertolt Brecht

The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets.…

— John Cage

We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence,…

— Nhat Hanh

“IMPERMANENCE "Driftsand of the hours. Quietly disappearing, continuously, even the happily consecrated design. Life blows away, always: pillars already rise without connection,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“The route of true happiness, the Buddha argued, was to achieve a visceral understanding of impermanence, which would take you off the…

— Dan Harris

Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine…

— William C. Bryant

“We have to make a consideration: emotional states are deeply influenced by external events, and here lies the problem. Since the external…

— Andrea Dandolo

“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

“I know this is all mere apparition compared to what awaits us, but it is only lovelier for that. There is a…

— Marilynne Robinson

“We are so consumed with wanting this or that or are wanting to solve our problems, that we fail to see Life’s…

— AVIS Viswanathan

“Buddhist teachings discourage us from clinging and grasping to those we hold dear, and from trying to control the people or the…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Taking impermanence truly to heart is to be slowly freed from the idea of grasping, from our flawed and destructive view of…

— Sogyal Rinpoche