165 Quotes About Impermanence

Something always attracts us towards the ruins, because ruins remind us our fundamental problem: The problem of impermanence! Amongst the ruins we see the very end of our road! Whatever shows you the simple truth, it is your Master Teacher; whoever repeatedly recalls you of the plain truth, he is your good master!

Each moment cancels the last. In the end there is nothing, not even the end.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

My house, my wife, my children-as if any of that really belongs to me.

Everything you love and value now is something you will eventually lose.

Time is a river that carries us along. We have to leave everything behind.

Trees, O trees, why can't you hold on to your leaves?

Impermanence and selflessness are not negative aspect of life, but the very foundation on which life is built. Impermanence is the constant transformation of things. Without impermanence, there can be no life. Selflessness is the interdependent nature of all things. Without interdependence, nothing could exist.

One can never go back to a place. It doesn't exist anymore, only in a faded polaroid memory.