Impermanence Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Impermanence.
Top Quotes
“Reincarnation”
“Eternal return”
“Past, present, and future”
“Whatever
is
will be
was”
“Tout passe, tout casse, tout lasse.”
“It is wiser to contemplate the law of impermanence than to try to repeal it.”
“Something offered is not offered. Something finished is not finished. Nothing changes.”
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“Knowledge of the stability of the Dhamma is also subject to destruction, vanishing, fading away and cessation.”
“All things are impermanent in nature.”
“In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble-organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is me.”
“Ich bedauere die Menschen, welche von der Vergänglichkeit der Dinge viel Wesens machen und sich in Betrachtung irdischer Nichtigkeit verlieren. Sind wir ja eben deßhalb da, um das Vergängliche unvergänglich zu machen; das kann ja nur dadurch geschehen, wenn man beides zu schätzen weiß.”
“The support of the world is a myth, know this my friend
Nanak says, it isn’t stable, no more than a wall of sand
Ram has gone, Ravan has gone, they of the great lineages
Nanak says nothing endures, the world is but a dream
Think of the calamities that may befall
Nothing on this path is durable, says Nanak
Whatever has sprouted will end, today or tomorrow
Nanak sing the praises of Hari, leave aside the webs of the world”
“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.
All our dignity consists then in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill. Let us endeavor to think well; this is the principle of morality.”
“いつ、どこの言語でも、完成したものはなく、言語は、すべて生々発展の途上にあるものである。 [...] 実は、われわれの弱さ、どうかすると、日常のことに心が慣れて、この見やすき事実を見忘れ、知らず知らず言語の「変化」を否定する誤りに陥ることがある。
• No language has finished the "language change". All languages are constantly experiencing the "language change", which is easy to observe. [...] But as we go about our daily lives, we tend to forget that it's happening. This is due to our innate weakness. Unknowingly, we may fall into the mistake of denying these "language changes."”