Impermanence Quotations

Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

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

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.

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

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

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

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

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

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

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

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.

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

Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?