Impermanence Quotes

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

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

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives. Soka Gakkai Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?

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

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.

Impermanence is the law of the universe.

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

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

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

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

Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.

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