Wilhelm Wundt

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

German Psychologist

Adrianne Lenker

Everything is fleeting and passing and impermanent in life. Relationships, people, our finite physical forms... We let go of our childhoods, we let go of different parts of our body, we lose elasticity in our skin, and we lose hair and we lose teeth.

American Musician

Jason Silva

For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

American Director

K. D. Lang

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

Canadian Musician

Jim Drain

Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.

American Artist

Patanjali

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

David Tang

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

Chinese Businessman

Use 'impermanent' to describe feelings that change like joy, anger, or sadness.

Temporary Emotions

Reference to weather or seasons highlights their natural inconsistency over time.

Changeable Weather

Avoid using 'impermanent' for human relationships unless you mean they're intentionally short-term.

Not for Relationships

 and we're speaking with the Paris Olympics to put a small floating village on the Seine. So very much this kind of, almost like nomadic, impermanent architecture. And the waterfronts of our cities are experiencing a lot of change. Economic change, industrial change and climate change.

Floating cities, the...

 What I'm doing is I'm just giving it logic so it has randomness. I'm just giving it randomness that mimics life. There's this obsession with most artists with the idea of exploding the fourth dimension, where the physical and impermanent meet.

Impermanent