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

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

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2025

Or, as Long put it, “embracing the rare imperfections and impermanence of it all.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

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

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2025

Movement, travel, impermanence, and passing in the night were laws of the tribe.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy