Sentence examples for impermanence from inspiring English sources
"impermanence" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to something that is not permanent or enduring, such as a fleeting emotion or a moment in time. For example, "She was struck by the impermanence of her success, knowing that it would likely not last forever."
noun
Lack of permanence or continued duration.
One primary controversy centered on the principle of impermanence: if all phenomena are impermanent, the Sautrāntika challenged the Sarvāstivāda and the Theravāda, then dharmas must be changing continuously and can neither exist in the past and future nor endure for any period of time, however short, in the present.
For impermanent-permanent appears as permanence and as impermanence, and each of these is the entirety, not a mere part, of the whole.
To be impermanent is already to also be permanent there is no other impermanence.
Of heaven, he writes: "I can't believe that we will forget our fantastic condition of mortality and impermanence, the great bright dream of procreating and perishing that meant the whole world to us.
They framed society with impermanence; they feel it from their feet up.
His journeys into the wood to sleep acted as a reminder of the impermanence of life, to be among the living and dying things in the wild.
Japanese culture is infused with ancient understanding of life's impermanence, she writes.
Earthquakes have sometimes acted to bring peace out of horror, underlining in the most graphic way the impermanence not just of human territorial divisions but of the earth itself.
I almost wasn't writing about suicides as such, but the brevity of life, or the impermanence of all things.
The entire society is wrapped up in these two ideas.Also, yes, there's a beauty of impermanence.
Latin quotes and musings on the impermanence of life pepper his speeches.
