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> [Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/finally-the-lessons-of-impermanence-taught-me-this-loss-constitutes/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

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> [“The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly, light would elucidate the most difficult truths; wind would sweep away obtuse padding.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/the-truest-art-i-would-strive-for-in-any-work-would-be-to-give-the-2/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

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## Other authors on Impermanence

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-nhat-hanh-70939.jpg) Nhat Hanh 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/impermanence/nhat-hanh/)

## More by Gretel Ehrlich

> [“To yield is to be preserved whole. To be bent is to become straight. To be hollow is to be filled. To be tattered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/to-yield-is-to-be-preserved-whole-to-be-bent-is-to-become-straight-to/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [Turbulence, like many forms of trouble, cannot always be seen. We bounce so hard my arms sail helplessly above my head. In evolution, wing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/turbulence-like-many-forms-of-trouble-cannot-always-be-seen-we-bounce/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/from-the-clayey-soil-of-northern-wyoming-is-mined-bentonite-which-is/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/finally-the-lessons-of-impermanence-taught-me-this-loss-constitutes/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/if-anything-is-endemic-to-wyoming-it-is-wind-this-big-room-of-space/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/everything-in-nature-invites-us-constantly-to-be-what-we-are/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/between-highway-sounds-i-heard-waves-and-thought-how-the-curve-of-the/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [Walking is also an ambulation of mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/walking-is-also-an-ambulation-of-mind/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress being unfastened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/as-fog-moved-to-the-mainland-i-heard-a-flock-of-birds-fly-over-they/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/history-is-not-truth-versus-falsehoods-but-a-mixture-of-both-a-m/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [“What shocks me so is the detachment with which we dispense destruction -- not just bombs, but blows to the head of the earth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/what-shocks-me-so-is-the-detachment-with-which-we-dispense/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [“Like water, I have no skin...only surface tension. (Gretel Ehrlich)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/like-water-i-have-no-skin-only-surface-tension-gretel-ehrlich/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [What Flaubert refers to as the “mélancholies du voyage” is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/what-flaubert-refers-to-as-the-m-lancholies-du-voyage-is-like-the/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [“Space is an arena where the rowdy particles that are the building blocks of life perform their antics. All spring, things fall; the general…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/space-is-an-arena-where-the-rowdy-particles-that-are-the-building/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/there-is-nothing-in-nature-that-can-t-be-taken-as-a-sign-of-both/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

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