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Impermanence

noun

The property of not existing for indefinitely long durations. Synonym: impermanency.

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"Impermanence" Quotes from Famous Books

... suffering, that we noticed in Hellas, only here the pathos is more acute. So strong is the sense of his own misery, the premonition of his own death, that we scarcely know, nor does it matter, whether it is in the person of Keats or of himself that he is lamenting the impermanence of earthly good. His spirit was hastening to escape from "the last clouds of cold ...

— Shelley • Sydney Waterlow

... distressing touch of horror to the scene. In all the cases of John Silence—and they were many and often terrible—no other psychic affliction has ever, before or since, impressed me so convincingly with the pathetic impermanence of the human personality, with its fluid nature, and with the alarming possibilities ...

— Three More John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood

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