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59 Impermanence quotes by 51 unique authors

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the… — Heinrich Heine
It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and… — Black Elk
What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never… — Donna Farhi
Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence. — Meredith L. Young-Sowers
The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place. — Stephanie Mills
That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence. — Pamela Moore
Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next. — Yasmin Mogahed
If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep… — Nhat Hanh
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. — Robert Green Ingersoll
In the long run we are all dead. — John Maynard Keynes
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. — Thomas Mann
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the… — Susan Sontag
The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I… — Douglas Rushkoff
Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. — Nhat Hanh
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf.… — Robert Frost
There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more… — Pat Conroy
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery… — Franz Wright
the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance. — Rainer Maria Rilke
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. — May Sarton
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 father's coffin, stunned… — Jonathan Tropper
The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that… — Eckhart Tolle
Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. — Gregory Maguire
The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for… — Peggy Orenstein
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight… — W. Somerset Maugham
Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow. — Steve Jobs

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