impermanence

While our illusion of permanence may be fostered by our sense of continuous memory, psychologists now understand that memories are not only frequently incorrect but as impermanent as our physical substance.

As Buddhists see it, all organisms are necessarily—even marvelously and gloriously—impermanent.

As Buddhists see it, all organisms are necessarily, unavoidably—even marvelously and gloriously—impermanent.

In the case of living things, this means that even the temporary, seeming defiance of impermanence can only occur via a never-ending introduction of new stuff.

A Buddhistically informed view suggests that even as everything changes over time, this very impermanence is connected to a deeper kind of persistence.

What better metaphor to describe the estrangement within marriage and the impermanence of love?

Their final moments together are an exploration of the impermanence of life.

That feeling—knocked out by the impermanence of love—is echoed in the stories in Day Out of Days.

One knew that the Elephant never for a moment lost his sardonic sense of the impermanence of human effort.

Their vitality is not impaired by the impermanence of their texts.

It is parenthetically to be noted how his afternoon fears of the impermanence of the Agence Moignon had vanished.

He had been speculating upon the futility of his political energy in the light of the impermanence of life and fame.

If, indeed, their happiness had a flaw, it was in resembling too closely the bright impermanence of their surroundings.