Literary notes about Impermanent (AI summary)
Writers use “impermanent” to evoke the fleeting, ever-changing nature of existence and beauty. In many works, the term functions as a synonym for transient or temporary, highlighting how nothing in life—be it emotions, structures, or relationships—remains fixed forever ([1], [2], [3]). Philosophical and poetic texts further explore this idea by contrasting the temporary with the enduring, often invoking impermanence to underscore human vulnerability in a world where all things decay or transform ([4], [5], [6]). Whether describing the evanescent glow of a sunset, the delicate impermanence of art, or the transient nature of social and personal bonds, literature consistently channels a bittersweet awareness of life’s ever-fleeting moments ([7], [8], [9]).
- transient , a. fleeting , transitory, temporary , impermanent.
— from Putnam's Word Book
A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of an Exact and Varied Vocabulary by Louis A. (Louis Andrew) Flemming - By its very nature it is transitory, impermanent.
— from The Colonists by Raymond F. Jones - Antonyms : impermanent, evanescent, ephemeral, transient .
— from Putnam's Word Book
A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of an Exact and Varied Vocabulary by Louis A. (Louis Andrew) Flemming - A. (1) True discrimination of permanent and impermanent things.
— from Five Years of Theosophy - Q. What is the right discrimination of permanent and impermanent things?
— from Five Years of Theosophy - Gautama Buddha taught that everything corporeal is material and therefore impermanent.
— from The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 - Our joint existence is impermanent: Sadly together we shall slip away.
— from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems - Impermanent, but beautiful to me, they lit a fair horizon.
— from Caught by the Turks by Francis Yeats-Brown - Beneath the daring rays of present-day research all things are being proved impermanent, all found verging over the infinite abyss.
— from Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits;A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. (Clark Smith) Beardslee