impermanence

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
bef9a4b	The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.	inspirational impermanence	Rabindranath Tagore
20e5f3c	Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.	time philosophy impermanence mujō 無常 stillness insight	David Foster Wallace
7c99dda	A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.	time impermanence	Vladimir Nabokov
e85b179	Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.	family impermanence	Gregory Maguire
67089e3	If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd look at it with a colder eye. I'd say to myself: You can look at it any time, it doesn't have to be today.	impermanence	Hermann Hesse
9a1bff1	They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.	impermanence morning	Peter S. Beagle
1b6f681	He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure oblivion, the oblivion whose absolute state will soon be achieved, the moment he himself is gone. And again I think about the obvious idea (that astoundingly obvious idea) that everything that exists (nation, thought, music) can also not exist.	existence mortality non-existence non-fiction essay impermanence oblivion	Milan Kundera
9b49d9c	We rush through our days in such stress and intensity, as if we were here to stay and the serious project of the world depended on us. We worry and grow anxious; we magnify trivia until they become important enough to control our lives. Yet all the time, we have forgotten that we are but temporary sojourners on the surface of a strange planet spinning slowly in the infinite night of the cosmos.	earth nature impermanence mindfulness existentialism	John O'Donohue
d221448	The question was not death; living things die. It was love. Not that we died, but what we cared wildly, then deeply, for one person out of billions. We bound ourselves to the fickle, changing, and dying as if they were rock.	mortality love impermanence	Annie Dillard
0757d45	Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.	mortality life temporality impermanence	Ruth Ozeki
08cf33b	Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he?	second-chanc impermanence regret	Joan Didion

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Rabindranath Tagore

20e5f3c

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

time philosophy impermanence mujō 無常 stillness insight

David Foster Wallace

7c99dda

A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.

time impermanence

Vladimir Nabokov

e85b179

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

family impermanence

Gregory Maguire

67089e3

If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd look at it with a colder eye. I'd say to myself: You can look at it any time, it doesn't have to be today.

impermanence

Hermann Hesse

9a1bff1

They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.

impermanence morning

Peter S. Beagle

1b6f681

He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure oblivion, the oblivion whose absolute state will soon be achieved, the moment he himself is gone. And again I think about the obvious idea (that astoundingly obvious idea) that everything that exists (nation, thought, music) can also not exist.

existence mortality non-existence non-fiction essay impermanence oblivion

Milan Kundera

9b49d9c

We rush through our days in such stress and intensity, as if we were here to stay and the serious project of the world depended on us. We worry and grow anxious; we magnify trivia until they become important enough to control our lives. Yet all the time, we have forgotten that we are but temporary sojourners on the surface of a strange planet spinning slowly in the infinite night of the cosmos.

earth nature impermanence mindfulness existentialism

John O'Donohue

d221448

The question was not death; living things die. It was love. Not that we died, but what we cared wildly, then deeply, for one person out of billions. We bound ourselves to the fickle, changing, and dying as if they were rock.

mortality love impermanence

Annie Dillard

0757d45

Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.

mortality life temporality impermanence

Ruth Ozeki

08cf33b

Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he?

second-chanc impermanence regret

Joan Didion