It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
Abraham LincolnTags: ancient-wisdom impermanence
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Tags: nature poem impermanence
Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
KabirTags: wisdom zen death sword-sentiments impermanence old-songs
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
Paulo CoelhoTags: loss posessions impermanence transience
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath TagoreTags: inspirational impermanence
The one close to me now,
even my own body-
these too
will soon become clouds,
floating in different directions.
Tags: death change impermanence
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
Richard Paul EvansTags: childhood impermanence sunsets
It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.
Elizabeth GilbertTags: life loss impermanence
And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.
Jimi HendrixTags: time change impermanence transience ephemeral ephemerality inevitability
I have no news
of my coming
or passing away--
the whole thing
happened quicker
than a breath;
ask no questions
of the moth.
Tags: zen impermanence mayfly-and-pilgrim
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