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impermanence

[im-pur-muh-nuhns] / ɪmˈpɜr mə nəns /












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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

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

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2025

Time-blindness causes late fees; object impermanence means we lose things and have to replace them.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2024

I want to be back in the motel, back on the road, in my old rootless life of impermanence and safety.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood