Impermanence Quotes · Page 3

“Drama of life may get gripping, intense or interesting but eventually it's still a drama.”

— Aditya Ajmera

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

— Anonymous

“I seem always to enjoy things more intensely because of the certainty they will not last.”

— W.L. Rusho

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

— George Meredith

In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would.

— Ursula Bloom

“My father rules an entire planet." "He's losing it.”

— Frank Herbert

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

— Gaston Bachelard

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

— May Sarton

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

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature…

— Mooji

“All the beauty in the world was made within the oppressive limitations of time and death and impermanence.”

— Joseph Fink

“If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and…

— Satya Nadella

We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is…

— Thubten Yeshe

“Part of the problem of the city is the impermanence of success. We’re only as good as our last deal,”

— Derek L. Worthington

“When we hold on too tightly to our attachments we are trying to keep them just as they are, to make them…

— Gyalwa Dokhampa

“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

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

It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on…

— Black Elk

Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached…

— Jack Kornfield

How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite,…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“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

“IMPERMANENCE means that the essence of life is fleeting. Some people are so skillful at their mindfulness practice that they can actually…

— Pema Chödrön

“It was the terror of impermanence, the knowledge that all this would pass away, that a beautiful voice or a wonderful figure…

— Terry Pratchett

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of…

— Ouida

If we lived forever, if the dews of Adashino never vanished, if the crematory smoke on Toribeyama never faded, men would hardly…

— Yoshida Kenko

“The basic Buddhist teaching of impermanence (Pali: anicca) suggests that even the most powerful spiritual experiences come and go like clouds in…

— Jonathan Landaw

“Meatspace equals entropy. Impermanence. The fading of anger or passion is analogous to the fading of a photograph, the yellowing of old…

— Maria Bustillos

“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

There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no…

— Ovid

“...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

See, see how the sun has moved onward while we talked. Nothing can stop it in its course. Prayers cannot halt the…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

— Steve Jobs

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

— Herbert V. Prochnow

I'm hyper-focused on loss. But I know it's just the impermanence of being here.

— Ryan Adams

For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.

— Marie-Luise Gothein

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

— Pema Chodron

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

— Pema Chodron

Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant.…

— Billy Cannon

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche