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Impermanence Quotes

IMPERMANENCE"Driftsand of the hours. Quietly disappearing, continuously, even the happily consecrated design. Life blows away, always: pillars already risewithout connection, carrying nothing but empty air. Rainer Maria Rilke
Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it... You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief... But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. "All right. I have... Mitch Albom
You can make a mark across the night with the tip of an embered stick, and you can actually see it fixed in its finity. You can be absolutely sure of its treacherous impermanence. And that is all. Ken Kesey
It was the terror of impermanence, the knowledge that all this would pass away, that a beautiful voice or a wonderful figure was something whose arrival you couldn't control and whose departure you couldn't delay. Terry Prachett
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 dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal. Pat Conroy
Gaston Bachelard quote: "It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of..."
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality. Gaston Bachelard
There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent. Though moving, it is always still. When we try to catch it, it seems to run away, and yet it is always here and there is no escape from it. And when we turn around to find the self which knows this moment, we find that it has vanished like the past. Alan Watts
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their..."
the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance. Rainer Maria Rilke
Mitch Albom quote: "You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things,..."
You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent. Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom quote: "Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent."
Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent. Mitch Albom
Stuart Davis quote: "The value of impermanence is to call attention to the permanent."
The value of impermanence is to call attention to the permanent. Stuart Davis
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. Wilhelm Wundt
The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are. Joe Henderson
Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside. K. D. Lang
This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path. Jeff Bridges

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