Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Impermanence Quotes

Existence Illusion Impermanence Reality All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Acceptance Death Impermanence Perspective Serenity Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

Change Impermanence Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus

Greek philosopher

Gratitude Impermanence Mindfulness Present Temporality The only thing you ever have is now.

Eckhart Tolle

Change Flow Impermanence Time You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Heraclitus

Greek philosopher

Anticipation Change Emotion Impermanence Nostalgia The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Bob Marley

Singer, songwriter, and musician

Anxiety Attachment Fear Impermanence Wealth Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Ernest Hemingway

Impermanence Interconnectedness Mortality Reciprocity Transience Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Leonardo da Vinci

Change Impermanence Time You cannot step into the same river twice.

Heraclitus

Greek philosopher

Impermanence Intellectual Growth Philosophy Politics Self-awareness Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Beauty Death Eternity Impermanence Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian and French playwright, theatrician, and essayist

Happiness Impermanence Possessions Uncertainty Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Arthur Schopenhauer

German Philosopher

Change Flux Impermanence Nature of Reality Transience Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

John Locke

Emotion Impermanence Music Reflection Self-awareness Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Frank Ocean

American singer-songwriter