Quotes about Impermanence
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.
- Anonymous
All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf.
- Anonymous
The fashion of this world passeth away.
- Anonymous
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.
- Anonymous
The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.
- Frank Herbert
Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.
- Samuel Johnson
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
- Walt Disney
Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
- Thomas a Kempis
Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.
- Tim Tebow
Siddhartha looked down at his arm and brushed away the film of dried dung that had settled on it. More dust flew up into the sunlight. I am just dust, he thought.
- Deepak Chopra
Continually remind yourself that you are a mortal being, and someday will die.
- Epictetus