Impermanence Quotes

The question was not death; living things die. It was love. Not that we died, but that we cared wild...

The question was not death; living things die. It was love. Not that we died, but what we cared wild...

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Mo...

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.

You are as the yellow leaf.The messengers of death are at hand.You are to travel far away.What will ...

Nothing endures but change.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd lo...

Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I h...

It is not only the size of these redwoods but their strangeness that frightens them. And why not? Fo...

He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see th...

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening...

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemi...

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing ...

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Be ahead of all parting, as if it had already happened,like winter, which even now is passing.For be...

Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.T...

Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and o...

A thousand years ago five minutes wereEqual to forty ounces of fine sand.Outstare the stars. Infinit...

Life, death, preservation, loss, failure, success, poverty, riches, worthiness, unworthiness, slande...

And suddenly you realize: you are in every dot of the universe vanishing and arising.