Everything Is Impermanent Quotes

#1. Everything is impermanent: happiness, sorrow, a great meal, a powerful empire, what we're feeling, the people around us, ourselves.

Sharon Salzberg

#2. Pain is inevitable, from this perspective, but suffering is an optional extra, resulting from our attachments, which represent our attempt to try to deny the unavoidable truth that everything is impermanent.

Oliver Burkeman

#3. Everything is impermanent, except the love of God.

Neem Karoli Baba

#4. Nothing lasts forever. That's the tragedy and the miracle of existence - that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do is make the best of the time we have. And go down shooting, naturally.

Seanan McGuire

#5. Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Mitch Albom

#6. Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are only projections of our mind, will permit us to counteract the first hindrance to meditation, that is, our attachment to this world.

Bokar Rinpoche

#7. Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.

Stephen Levine

#8. What takes our breath away
gives us life.

J.Z. Bingham

#9. Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

#10. I cut going there entirely, gradually.

J.D. Salinger

#11. My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.

Andy Warhol

#12. Everything is so fleeting and impermanent. It's enough to drive you bat shit crazy.

Shane Kuhn

#13. For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

Jason Silva

#14. Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Edwin Louis Cole

#15. After love, the man sleeps, while the woman reflects.

Monica Bellucci

#16. We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible ... If your daughter is not impermanent, she cannot grow up to become a woman. Then your grandchildren would never manifest.

Nhat Hanh