It has been handed down that his subjects of discourse were such as "The bitterness and vanity of life as impermanent and uncertain," and that "The body is as a bubble or foam on the water."

Formerly there was a bhikshu, who, as he walked backwards and forwards upon it, thought with himself:"This body is impermanent, a thing of bitterness and vanity, and which cannot be looked on as pure.

As, by the power of meditation, you grow in wisdom, you will relinquish, more and more, your selfish desires which are fickle, impermanent, and productive of sorrow and pain; and will take your stand, with increasing steadfastness and trust, upon unchangeable principles, and will realize heavenly rest.

All nature in its myriad forms of life is changeable, impermanent, unenduring.

That pain is as impermanent As shadows on the hills, And that Nirvana's blessedness Will cure all mortal ills?

As I view her chastened features, I can feel the rising tears At the thought of all her anguish Through a martyrdom of years; For her joys were writ in water, Too impermanent to stay, And were swept toward sorrow's ocean, Ere her youth had passed away.

A crude desire for immediate effect, and the tendency toward a more barbaric luxury, resulted in the piling up of frail palaces as impermanent as tents.

They were like a refugee camp after a disaster, impermanent, uncomfortable, barely holding on to the swampy earth.

for you will know grief also to be impermanent.

This fundamental belief in unity leads naturally to the further belief that all things about us are but forms or manifestations of the one divine life, and that these phenomena are fleeting and impermanent, although the spirit which informs them is immortal and endures.

In fact, it wasn't solid anything, being mostly of a very impermanent structure and style.

Their lives are like their work,impermanent, detached from others', unobserved.