Douglas Rushkoff

The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.

American Journalist

Thich Nhat Hanh

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Vietnamese Clergyman

Jamais Cascio

Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast.

American Writer

Jeff Bridges

This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.

American Actor

Gerald Vizenor

It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence.

Ryan Adams

I'm hyper-focused on loss. But I know it's just the impermanence of being here.

American Musician

Goldie

Impermanence is the greatest gift anyone can have.

British Musician

Can express a sense of loss or nostalgia, showing that something valued is gone or will soon be.

Emotional Weight

Common in spiritual or philosophical discussions about life and existence.

Philosophical Concept

Used in literature to highlight the temporary nature of beauty, love, or life itself.

Literary Themes

 longing and this is really what's emblematic of this incredible place it feels like it has this great expansive spiritual nough stew it it feels like it has this great depth of antiquity to it and when you travel in this place you can't help but feel the great impermanence of it and you can't help

Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...

 Touch it lightly, leave a minimal mark. And I think that's an important lesson for us as citizens and architects. And I think it was this experience that made me believe that impermanence is bigger than permanence

The architectural wonder...

 and the data gives this artwork and impermanence and a constant change the way that it feeds into the visual compositions and plays sounds in