impermanence

Example Sentences

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While you meditate you brood on the impermanence of all things, including yourself, and envision yourself as a corpse, lying out on a bier, all life gone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

It was that sense of impermanence, she believes, that made the films special.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

But that impermanence is also what makes the holidays so special.

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2025

Dahlia Lithwick: The book is deliberately rooted in this paradox of permanence and impermanence.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2025

Life’s impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore