165 Quotes About Impermanence

nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Nothing endures but change.

When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.

Most days, I’ve got this impermanence thing down just great. It doesn’t bother me; what’s to bother? Most days, I sit comfortably with the knowledge that I’ll die alone, and I feel nothing so strongly as my embrace of my nothingness. Most days don’t really matter, because there is only this day, and right now I feel like fear is all I am. I don’t want you to leave. Just let me pretend you won’t.'He wrapped his arms around me and we slept. For that night, we would last forever.

Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.

This life is ours to spend, not to keep.