Impermanence

Knowledge of the stability of the Dhamma is also subject to destruction, vanishing, fading away and cessation.

— Impermanence

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.

— Impermanence

It is wiser to contemplate the law of impermanence than to try to repeal it.

— Impermanence

Something offered is not offered. Something finished is not finished. Nothing changes.

— Impermanence

In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble-organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is me.

— Impermanence

All things are impermanent in nature.

— Impermanence