Quotes about Impermanence

They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment.

You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

Nothing works perfectly. The weather doesn't work perfectly. Because of sin in the world, nothing works perfectly. But in spite of that we can find comfort. We can find strength.

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

Maybe the only enemy is that we don't like the way reality is *now* and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as practitioners is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Everything on earth changes - we have no abiding city here - it is the experience of everybody. That it is God's will that we should part with what is dearest on earth - we ourselves change in many respects, we are not what we once were, we shall not remain what we are now.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.