Impermanence Quotes

"Seeing the gardener come, the buds cry out: the blossoms he has plucked today; tomorrow it will be our turn."

Kabir

"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not."

Stephen King

"Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time."

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

Heraclitus

"Yesterday he was; today he is not – such is the greatness of this world."

Thiruvalluvar

“Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.”

“Look upon the world as a bubble, look upon it as a mirage.”

“All conditioned things are impermanent. Strive on with diligence.”

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."

Charlie Chaplin

"Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold."

Robert Frost

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."

Emily Dickinson

“There is nothing permanent except change.”

Heraclitus

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

Heraclitus

“Everything changes, nothing remains without change.”

“Pleasure and pain come and go like winter and summer; they are impermanent, so learn to endure them.”

The Bhagavad Gita

“It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

“Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. Nothing gold can stay.”

Robert Frost

“Yesterday a man was, today he is not: such is the greatness of this world.”

Thiruvalluvar

“Life is uncertain; death is certain.”

“Tomorrow or the next life, which comes first, we never know.”

Tibetan Proverb