This being such, she knew that her time within her own crevasse would not last; and that to be inextricably attached to these selfish and impermanent beings who had fallen in with her would merely be a form of weak clinging.
She too needed to cling to another person to seem to herself that she was more than dirt blowing around in the impermanent streets of the city.
Speeches are--next to leading articles--the mostimpermanent of impermanent things.
There, there and not anywhere else, these supernaturally clear things had reality, a unique but impermanent reality.
If you took it up and looked at it the clearness, the unique, impermanent reality would be gone, and you would never get it again.
That pain is as impermanent As shadows on the hills, And that Nirvana's blessedness Will cure all mortal ills?
This Earth was in one respect like a huge amniotic sac of impermanent quasi-reality in which he seemed to be a six billionth major cell of some inchoate but never complete organism that was being tossed therein.
But as Buddhists say the world is animpermanent place.
It tortured him in one deranged second for all was a phantasm of the mind and the phantasmagoria of an impermanent existence.
Before and behind there stretches a vista of lives, past, present and to come, impermanent and unsatisfying, so that future existences are spoken of not as immortality but as repeated death.
A confused and impermanent family life must be a bad background for the young.
A necessary but an impermanent stage in its struggle towards the adult level of the reality-principle.
Skandhas, theimpermanent elements which constitute a man.
Reflection, therefore, will easily suggest to the reader the further logical inference that in a Universe which is essentially impermanent in its conditions, nothing can confer permanency.
What is the right discrimination of permanent and impermanent things?
A retired, abstemious, and austere life is essentially necessary for the pronunciation of Om, which promotes the love of rigid virtue and a contempt of impermanent sensuality.
Matters in their poetry, now the subjects of warm discussion among their critics, will be laid aside as materials for judgment; and justly, for they are of quite impermanent value.
But those of the brethren who were free from the passions (the Arahats) bore their grief collected and composed at the thought: "Impermanent are all component things!
But the spirits who are free from passion hear it, calm and self-possessed, mindful of the saying which begins, 'Impermanent indeed are all component things.
