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
Dahlia Lithwick: The book is deliberately rooted in this paradox of permanence and impermanence.
From Slate • Sep. 8, 2025
For all the impermanence — packing up and relocating just about every two years — Hutson said his upbringing was in many ways ideal, shaping his outlook to this day.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2025
Time-blindness causes late fees; object impermanence means we lose things and have to replace them.
From Salon • Nov. 29, 2024
The air of collective displacement, the impermanence of life in wartime and the gauche personalities of the more recent arrivals tended to dissipate my own sense of not belonging.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
