Non Permanence Quotes

Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that matter and energy are interchangeable, any more than are the body and soul. There is just so much matter in the universe and it cannot be destroyed. As I see life on this planet, there is no individuality. It may sound ridiculous to say so, but I believe each person is but a wave passing through space, ever-changing from minute to minute as it travels along, finally, some day, just becoming dissolved.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.

A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

All created things are impermanent. Strive diligently.

What I love about jewelry is you can change it for something else without surgery.

This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700, 800 years - Persian poets and philosophers haven't said anything different with regard to experiencing life in the moment, as opposed to the belief of permanence.

There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book: "I have made visits to the earth in my body, but it's always been as a visitor."

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, and the momentary elements of our flesh and bone pass out of our body every day with our excreta. We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.

Some of the decisions that you make are not permanent.

People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition.

Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it's not permanent. If I didn't like my colour, I'd just change it.

I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

Streams and mountains never stay the same.

He'll come back to visit, but not to stay, not to live.

I have seen lot of ups and downs in life; I have realised that nothing is permanent in life.

Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan

This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.