Quotes About Transient

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

Brief life is here our portion.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

Life's but a day at most.

Life is simply a vacation from the infinite

These are but dreaming men. Breathe, and they fade.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

It could have lived so much longer.

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

Because they had no root, they withered away.

For the hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind… and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.

The window glows. The slow sandy light of dawn permeates the room. Everything transient and aching; everything tentative. To be here, in this room, high in this house, out of the cellar, with her: it is like medicine.

Even at your best, the creative moments are still kind of fleeting.

Love is very fleeting with me. I don't know why.

Sometimes you meet someone who changes the way you think forever and yet you meet her for just those fleeting moments in life, perhaps never to meet her again.

Everything is finite, right? Nothing can last forever.

Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.

As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.

Life is so fragile.

If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary. —THE STOLEN JOURNALS

Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.